Senior Border Patrol officials covered up a near-fatal helicopter crash and were allowed to retire early rather than face the rap for repeatedly placing the public at serious risk, a whistleblower has claimed.
Two Customs and Border Protection agents had a miraculous escape in 2021 when a helicopter crashed and burst into flames during a training exercise outside Oklahoma City.
An internal investigation found the trainee was just the first of many routinely allowed to fly without enough cock-pit experience, and that most of the fleet does not have crash-proof fuel tanks.
Whistleblower Joseph Adams claims that CBP boss Robert Blanchard ordered him to cut the findings from the official crash report because they were a 'legal liability.'
Adams said, according to the New York Post, the agency runs an 'under wraps' flight school allowing trainees to 'pad their logbooks', and that his job was threatened for warning about the 'substantial and specific danger to public safety.'
An internal CBP report into the 2021 Oklahoma helicopter crash found the trainee pilot was just the first of many routinely allowed to fly without enough cockpit experience, and that most of its fleet did not have crash-proof fuel tanks
Whistleblower Joseph Adams accused Robert Blanchard (left) of ordering him to cover up the report. Current agency boss Troy Miller (right) allowed Blanchard to retire early
Investigators found little but ashes and two dazed airmen when they arrived at the scene
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