Letter to Transportation Secretary
August 16, 2021
House 277 Street 63
Sector E-11/3
Islamabad, Pakistan 44000
The Honorable Pete Buttigieg
Secretary of Transportation
US Department of Transportation
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20590
SUBJ: NONRESPONSE TO MY CERTIFIED LETTERS TO YOU
Dear Honorable Secretary Pete Buttigieg,
On March 17, 2021 I sent the enclosed certified letter to your office in which I received a delivery receipt. To date I have not yet received a response. Please refer to the letter for additional information.
On June 22, 2021, I sent a second attached letter to your office requesting that you respond to my March 17th letter. Again, your office has failed to respond.
As discussed in the March 17th letter, I filed an FAA whistleblower report in August 2020 and, over the course of the past year, have been stonewalled, lied to, and deceived by this agency of the federal government that is under your purview. Disregarding critical evidence such as pilot expert witness testimony and other important information, the FAA has threatened to close the investigation unless additional evidence can be produced. This is an outrageous demand since we feel that more than adequate evidence has been produced for the FAA to engage other branches of government such as the Department of Justice to continue the investigation. We are strongly convinced that the FAA has taken our serious allegations of our case lightly.
It should be noted that many of the letters and emails from me to the FAA Administrator Steven Dickson and others within the FAA have all gone unanswered. Additionally, until very recently, the FAA refused to provide the name and email address of a single point-of-contact within the agency for me to communicate with and has stonewalled most of my correspondence to them.
With the exception of one phone call to Seattle-based FAA aeronautical engineer Paul Siegmund last September, after which he refused to answer or return my subsequent phone calls, I have not been afforded the opportunity to speak on the phone with one single person within the FAA to discuss the details of our case due to their refusal to provide me with a phone number.
In his last email to me, FAA Director Aviation Safety Jeff Duven advised me that he was ceasing all communication with me, another attempt at stonewalling by the FAA.
This is totally unsatisfactory.
I currently reside in Islamabad, Pakistan where I have lived the past eleven years, am in contact with members of the government here, and have requested that they review the materials that were submitted to the FAA as we believe it contains very important actionable intelligence information. (See attached). If the US government is not interested in conducting a thorough and intensive investigation of our allegations, then perhaps the Pakistan government will entertain the opportunity.
Very respectfully,
Captain Dan Hanley (retired)
Director – 9/11 Pilot Whistleblowers
Encl:
Joint letter dated March 17, 2021
Joint letter dated June 22, 2021
Letter to dated August 16, 2021 to Pakistan government officials
Cc:
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi
Eric J. Soskin – DOT Inspector General
Scott Harding – DOT Inspector General Chief Compliance Officer
Steven Dickson – FAA Administrator
Jeff Duven – FAA Director Aviation Safety
Paul Siegmund – FAA Aeronautical Engineer
FAA Hotline Team
To date, there has been no response to this letter by Secretary Buttigieg’s office.