Families, lawmakers discuss next step in FAA safety law

August 3, 2010 at 12:57 pm | Posted in Aviation Law Current Event | Leave a comment

by Sara M. Langston with the blog faculty

Source: Buffalo News

A day after President Obama signed a new airline regulation bill, area lawmakers met with about 40 family members of Flight 3407 victims Monday afternoon to discuss the next step.

“Our battle is not over. We’re going to continue to work together as a coalition,” Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., said Monday. “We have to make sure that the legislation is now enacted into regulations into the full weight of what the legislation says.”

Schumer, Rep. Chris Lee, R-Clarence, and Rep. Brian Higgins, D-Buffalo, pledged at a news conference in Clarence that they will fight to make sure that the Federal Aviation Administration creates new, strict regulations.

The legislation signed into law Sunday is a direct response to the crash. The legislation requires pilots hired by regional airlines to have greater flight-time experience, and provides new requirements on pilot fatigue and simulator-based stall-recovery training for pilots. The law also calls for a new database of potential pilots..more