The Federal Aviation Administration is facing scrutiny from Congress after several recent incidents in which accidents were narrowly avoided and an outage delayed flights,.
at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport after a passenger plane was preparing for takeoff on the same runway.
David Boulter, who is the acting associate administrator of the FAA and is the agency's executive director of flight standards, told lawmakers that, "In my mind, complacency and stagnation are equal threats to a safety culture." "We continue to have investigations such as the incident last month at JFK and now Austin, where the data isn't available to our investigators due to the current time limitation. We've recommended that the FAA require new and existing aircraft have 25-hour recorders," Homendy said. "That's consistent with the standards of our European counterparts and adopted by ICAO rather than the current two-hour recording that is the standard in the U.S.
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