FAA wants to keep records on birds hitting planes secret

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

The Federal Aviation Administration is proposing to keep secret from travelers its vast records on where and how often commercial planes are damaged by hitting flying birds.

The government agency argued that some carriers and airports would stop reporting incidents for fear the public would misinterpret the data and hold it against them. The reporting is voluntary because the FAA rejected a National Transportation Safety Board recommendation 10 years ago to make it mandatory.

It's a secret! You'd thought Obama was going to bring a new era of open government?