Reuters
David Shepardson
12 December 2024
The incoming chair of the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee said on Thursday that the Federal Aviation Administration must take actions to modernize air traffic control systems.
Senator Ted Cruz said at a hearing on air traffic issues that he plans to "focus heavily" on the status of U.S. airspace when he takes over next year.
A computer outage to a key pilot alerting system in January 2023 disrupted 11,000 flights and forced a halt to all U.S. passenger airlines' departing traffic for almost two hours, the first such action since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The Government Accountability Office in September said the FAA must take "urgent action" to address aging air traffic control systems.
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