A Southwest Airways aircraft approaches to land at San Diego Worldwide Airport. Bryan Bedford, chief government of Republic Airways, has been tapped to steer the FAA. (FILE PHOTO. REUTERS/Mike Blake)
NEW YORK – US President Donald Trump named a regional airline chief to steer the Federal Aviation Administration on Monday because the company contends with security questions following a lethal crash in January.
Trump tapped Bryan Bedford, chief government of Republic Airways, to steer the company which manages the US Air Visitors Group and is overseeing Boeing’s security operations following a sequence of high-profile issues.
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The place requires Senate affirmation.
Trump, in a publish on his Fact Social platform, cited Bedford’s greater than three a long time of aviation expertise.
He mentioned Bedford will work with the Transportation Secretary “to strongly reform the company, safeguard our exports and make sure the security of practically one billion annual passenger actions.”
The FAA final week introduced new restrictions on helicopter visitors round Washington’s Ronald Reagan airport, the place an American Eagle airliner hit a army Black Hawk on January 29, killing 67 individuals.
The crash, which ended the USA’ 16-year streak of no deadly industrial air crashes, has added to considerations in regards to the US air visitors management system, which some regard as an understaffed operation beset with previous gear.
The company has not been spared employees cuts by Trump ally Elon Musk’s so-called Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE), which seeks large value financial savings throughout the federal authorities. Nevertheless, air visitors controllers weren’t included in current layoffs.
The FAA has additionally been in shut contact with Boeing because it implements security and high quality management reforms following a January 2024 incident on a Boeing 737 MAX wherein a door plug blew out mid-flight. That incident adopted two lethal MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019 in Indonesia and Ethiopia.
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