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Safe Aviation and Flight Enhancement Act

Introduced: June 26, 2003 See on congress.gov
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Jun 27, 2003
Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
Jun 26, 2003
Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Jun 26, 2003
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Safe Aviation and Flight Enhancement Act - Amends Federal aviation law to direct the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations requiring all commercial aircraft to carry both a cockpit voice recorder and digital flight data recorder equipped with two combination cockpit voice and digital flight data recording systems.

Mandates that one system be located as close to the cockpit as practicable, and that the other be a deployable recorder system mounted as far rear on the airframe as practicable. Sets forth minimum recorder capabilities.

Directs the Secretary to: (1) purchase and make available, at no cost, to an air carrier such fixed recorder systems and deployable recorder systems as may be necessary for the air carrier to comply with regulations; and (2) reimburse aircraft manufacturers owned or controlled by a U.S. citizen for engineering, certification, and installation costs incurred in developing and installing fixed recorder and deployable recorder systems in compliance with regulations.

What's happening now June 27, 2003

Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.

 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Democratic 1 Republican 2