Re: GM jet cloaking -- It has already happened!

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Paul Saffo <paul () saffo com>
Date: November 28, 2008 11:01:06 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
Subject: GM jet cloaking -- It has already happened!

Dave,

It has already happened! Go to www.flightaware.com and enter "N5116,"  
the tail number of GM CEO Wagoner's leased Gulfstream G-4, and one  
gets the following message:

"AVN AIR LLC (DANBURY CT)
This flight is not available for tracking per request from the owner/ 
operator"

If I were Wagoner, I would keep in mind F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous  
observation in the Great Gatsby: “Americans, while occasionally  
willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.”


Mr. Wagoner's lame attempt at hiding his flights are thus certain to  
cause him vastly more grief than keeping them in the open.

best
-p

On Nov 28, at , David Farber wrote:

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> From: wb8foz <wb8foz () panix com>
> Date: November 28, 2008 4:26:59 PM EST
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: GM wants Don't Ask, Don't Tell... for the CEO....
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> <http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE4AQ7T420081127>
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> GM asks government to block public tracking of jet
> Thu Nov 27, 2008 5:14pm EST
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> NEW YORK (Reuters) - General Motors Corp whose chief executive was  
> blasted last week by U.S. lawmakers for flying on a private jet to  
> ask for public funds, has asked the U.S. Federal Aviation  
> Administration to prevent public tracking of a jet it leases.
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> "We availed ourselves of the same option as others have," to have  
> the plane removed from the FAA's tracking service, a GM spokesman,  
> Greg Martin, said Thursday.
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> He declined to comment on why GM made the request or when the  
> company expects the FAA to decide whether to grant it.
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