John H. Shaffer
Male, Deceased Person
1919 – 1997
Who was John H. Shaffer?
John Hixon Shaffer was an administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration from March 24, 1969 until March 14, 1973.
Most notably, he was the administrator during an en-masse calling-in sick strike of air traffic controllers during 1969. In the summer of that year, Shaffer himself testified in front of a congressional committee, reporting that air traffic controllers were neither overworked nor underpaid. Shaffer's testimony, coupled with increased pressure on individual controllers to return to their jobs, Francis Lee Bailey of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization stated "This guy Shaffer has got to go." The FAA and Shaffer were both later attacked by the PATCO for continuing to operate despite the low number of air traffic controllers.
On December 3, 1970, he testified to Conngress about aviation safety.
Following his retirement from his position in the FAA, Shaffer was involved in the ongoing debate over both the inclusion of Microwave landing systems in civil aviation during 1978 and to whom the contract for construction of such devices should be awarded, American, British or German companies.
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- Born
- Feb 25, 1919
Everett - Also known as
- John Schaffer
- Education
- Columbia University
- United States Military Academy
- Air Force Institute of Technology
- Died
- Sep 14, 1997
Frederick
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on July 23, 2013
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