If you mean admin at the pres level I don't put that on them.....even at the national level of the FAA.....they can't be in charge of every detail to that level there isn't enough time in the day. There has to be some type of rule/regulation that was just completely ignored here.....
That being said whoever is in charge at the local and regional level....and the whole communication dept..... for the FAA and whoever is the commanding officer of the tower/desk at the pentagon got to go. In the power biz all forms of emergency sat phones/radio/all calls/electronic coms are checked at a minimum monthly.....all companies required to have back up centers are required to test all coms back to the main operating facility/balancing authority/interconnect any time it is staffed and they must be staffed at least once a month most are weekly for checks such as this. Hell you can do checks now that don't involve human interaction just for circuit integrity we do that daily for both circuit integrity and test the failure alarms.
I also don't know if this had anything to do with or could have prevented the crash in anyway but it's symptomatic of an operation that is incredibly sloppy.
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