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U.S. Senate panel delays consideration of FAA reform bill – Metro US

U.S. Senate panel delays consideration of FAA reform bill

FILE PHOTO: Boeing 737 Max aircraft are parked in a
FILE PHOTO: Boeing 737 Max aircraft are parked in a parking lot at Boeing Field in this aerial photo taken over Seattle

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee has postponed consideration of a bill to overhaul how the Federal Aviation Administration certifies new airplanes in the wake of two fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes, a spokesman for Democrats on the panel confirmed.

The committee had been scheduled to consider the 70-page revised bill jointly endorsed by Senate Commerce Committee chairman Roger Wicker, a Republican, and the committee’s top Democrat Maria Cantwell. The measure would marks the most significant effort toward adopting reforms since the 2018 and 2019 Boeing 737 MAX crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia that killed 346 people.

(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)