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House Committee Weighs Aviation Safety Bill Backed by NTSB with Families Seeking Clear Timelines
The bill mandates ADS-B In systems to improve pilot awareness near busy airports, but families of 67 victims demand strict deadlines to ensure timely safety upgrades.
- The National Transportation Safety Board now backs the revised House aviation safety bill, which requires Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast In systems on aircraft to improve pilot awareness of surrounding traffic.
- Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy criticized the original version last month as a "watered down" measure that "wouldn't do enough to prevent future tragedies," prompting revisions addressing the January 29, 2025, collision between an American Airlines jet and an Army Black Hawk.
- Industry groups, including Airlines for America and the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, support the legislation, which mandates systems the NTSB has recommended since 2008 to prevent incidents like the Army helicopter flying without active tracking.
- Families of the 67 victims said Thursday that they are "encouraged by the changes in the bill but won't" endorse it without strict implementation timelines, similar to a Senate version that failed by one vote.
- The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will consider the bill today, as advocates argue that clear statutory performance standards are necessary to ensure safety requirements are not delayed by administrative discretion or negotiated processes.
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US House committees approve sweeping aviation safety reforms
Two U.S. House committees unanimously voted to pass sweeping aviation safety reform legislation to address dozens of recommendations issued after a January 2025 collision between an American Airlines regional jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter that killed 67 people.
House committees approve sweeping aviation safety reforms
WASHINGTON — Two U.S. House committees unanimously voted to pass sweeping aviation safety reform legislation to address dozens of recommendations issued after a January 2025 collision between an American Airlines regional jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter that killed 67 people.
NTSB supports revised House aviation safety bill, but victims' families want stricter timelines
A revised version of the House’s aviation safety bill now has the backing of the NTSB, but most of the families of the 67 victims of last year’s midair collision near Washington, D.C., still want to see tougher requirements to ensure the reforms are completed.
AOPA Commends House Committee Passage of Bipartisan Bill to Advance Aviation Safety
WASHINGTON—The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) today praised the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) for unanimously passing, 62-0, the Airspace Location and Enhanced Risk Transparency (ALERT) Act to address safety issues resulting from the mid-air collision last year between American Airlines Flight 5342 and a UH-60 Army Black Hawk helicopter at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA).
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