FAA will expunge pilots' identities from certain accident, incident records

[SilentWarrior]

If you were involved in an accident or incident that was reported to or investigated by the FAA, chances are that your personal identification information, like your pilot certificate number or name, is still on record with the FAA — and would be indefinitely if you didn't specifically ask for that information to be removed.

But all that is changing now with the FAA's announcement Tuesday that it has started expunging airmen identification from certain electronic incident and accident records if the incident or accident took place more than five years ago.

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