U.S. aviation safety concerns need attention — lawmakers By Reuters


© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: An aircraft approaches to land at Miami International Airport after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it had slowed the volume of airplane traffic over Florida due to an air traffic computer issue, in Miami, Florida, U.S. January

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers said Tuesday recent incidents in the U.S. aviation system — including two near miss crashes and the failure of a key pilot computing system — raise serious concerns that need to be addressed.

House Transportation and Infrastructure committee chair Sam Graves, a Republican, said at a hearing on aviation safety the incidents showed the aviation system is in need of “urgent attention.” Representative Garret Graves, the Republican chair of a subcommittee on aviation, said “right now the alarm bells should be going off across the aviation industry — our system is stretched and stressed.”

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