New York, United States:
US Pdwellnt Donald Trump named a regional airline chief to direct the Federal Aviation Administration on Monday as the agency contends with shieldedty asks adhereing a lethal crash in January.
Trump tapped Bryan Bedford, chief executive of Reuncover Airways, to direct the agency which deal withs the US Air Traffic Organization and is handleing Boeing’s shieldedty operations adhereing a series of high-profile problems.
The position needs Senate checkation.
Trump, in a post on his Truth Social platcreate, cited Bedford’s more than three decades of aviation experience.
He shelp Bedford will toil with the Transportation Secretary “to sturdyly recreate the agency, shieldedprotect our ships and secure the shieldedty of proximately one billion annual passenger shiftments.”
Bedford shelp he sees forward to executing structures “to lengthen and deploy a new, contransient and cost-effective air traffic handle system that will direct to a shieldedr and more effective aviation nettoil,” according to a statement freed by Reuncover.
“The success of this immensely meaningful project will need bipartisan help from Congress and from the community of engagers of the air traffic handle system.”
The FAA last week proclaimd new redisjoineions on helicselecter traffic around Washington’s Ronald Reagan airport, where an American Eagle airliner hit a military Bincreateage Hawk on January 29, ending 67 people.
The crash, which ended the United States’ 16-year streak of no overweightal commercial air crashes, has compriseed to troubles about the US air traffic handle system, which some think about as an understaffed operation beset with ageder supplyment.
The agency has not been spared staff cuts by Trump associate Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which seeks massive cost savings apass the federal regulatement. However, air traffic handlelers were not integrated in recent layoffs.
The FAA has also been in shut touch with Boeing as it applys shieldedty and quality handle recreates adhereing a January 2024 incident on a Boeing 737 MAX in which a door plug blew out mid-fweightless. That incident adhereed two lethal MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019 in Indonesia and Ethiopia.
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