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House Passes Bill To Improve FAA System That Grounded Flights

Photo Caption: “I encourage my colleagues in both the House and the Senate to pass my legislation before another failure of the NOTAM system occurs. Our pilots

The House on Wednesday passed a bipartisan bill aimed at reviewing and recommending improvements to the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) NOTAM pilot alert system that went haywire earlier this month.  

The NOTAM Improvement Act would create a task force under the FAA to offer solutions aimed at boosting the system’s stability and keeping it safe from cyber attacks.

The FAA was forced to ground all U.S. flights on Jan. 11 for several hours due to a NOTAM system outage, the first nationwide shutdown in more than two decades.

“Following the FAA meltdown earlier this month, it is clearer than ever that improvements must be made to our aviation safety systems,” Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (D-Calif.), who co-led the bill with Rep. Pete Stauber (R-Minn.), said in a statement.

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