The head of the Federal Aviation Administration is set to discuss the failure of an agency safety bulletin system for the first time Wednesday when he appears before a Senate committee.
The Senate committee is set to take the lead this year on crafting a multiyear package to fund the FAA, coming as lawmakers are looking for avenues to help the agency modernize.Lawmakers say the challenges facing the FAA underscore the need for stable leadership. The agency has been without a Senate-confirmed leader since March, when its previous administrator, Steve Dickson, retired partway through his term.
To help prevent pilot errors such as attempting to land on the wrong runway, FAA employees warned that the agency needed to address potential dangers in the way pilot alerts are created, collected and distributed. “This will help avoid potentially fatal commercial airline accidents,” a 2008 FAA budget document said.The agency spent millions on plans to upgrade the U.S. NOTAM System, which is based on decades-old technology, with the more modern Federal NOTAM System.
“I think part of it is the prioritization and the nimbleness of an organization as big and as intrinsically cautious as the FAA,” Buttigieg said. “It tells you something: that this work on this system goes back multiple administrations and we’re still not where we want to be.
Peter Knudson, an NTSB spokesman, said in an email that the board investigates incidents that present a “significant risk of a catastrophic outcome,” adding that “the three recent runway incursions in New York, Austin and Honolulu all fit into that category.”
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