Accidental aviation safety advocate. Fighting for safer skies in memory of Christine Conrad Lane and Spencer Lane. @FamofFlight5342
Rhode Island, USA
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I must have missed the @FAANews notice of proposed rulemaking for ADS-B In with cockpit display of traffic information and audible alerting.
Important reminder from @DeanMaxwellKs on the urgency for Congress to strike a ROTOR/ALERT Act compromise now. Unless we see progress in the next week or so, we will likely mark two years without our loved ones without the critical actions the @NTSB called for.
Rep. Bill Shuster, then chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, took care of that. He slid a two-sentence repeal into his amendment to the next FAA reauthorization bill and described it on the House floor as "some good government reforms." 8/9
When the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 was signed that October, the mandate that would have put ADS-B In on Flight 5342 died a quiet death. The full story of how the airlines avoided the "burden" of ADS-B In, with help from Congress and the FAA: 9/9
douglane.com/a-quiet-death/
Grateful to @JerryMoran and his @SenateCommerce and @commercedems colleagues for not giving up on this and not settling for less than what is needed.
New: After I asked him earlier yesterday about the ROTOR Act-ALERT Act talks, @JerryMoran told me he’s angling to give a floor speech today to highlight the issue — before the Senate leaves for recess.
What will come first: two years since the loss of Everly, Alydia, and 65 others, or @USArmy telling the public what they learned and changed and @FAANews mandating the ADS-B In technology that would have saved them?
Today, Everly Livingston should be celebrating her sweet sixteen. Tomorrow, her little sister, Alydia, would have turned thirteen.
Instead, Everly and Alydia will forever be 14 and 11. Their friends will keep growing up and celebrating birthdays. Their loved ones will keep counting the birthdays they should have shared.
606 days since Everly and Alydia, their parents, Peter and Donna, and 63 other souls were taken from us.
606 days, and the @USArmy still has not released its investigations to the families or fully explained what it is doing to correct the failures that led to this tragedy to the public.
606 days, and the @FAANews response to 11 of the 33 safety recommendations directed to it has been classified by the @NTSB as “Open—Unacceptable Response.” That includes the FAA’s failure to commit to requiring ADS-B In, the technology the National Transportation Safety Board says could have warned Flight 5342’s pilots about the helicopter before the collision.
606 days, and what have the @AirlinesDotOrg airlines done on their own to help prevent another collision? Our families are still waiting to see a commitment to put ADSB In protection across entire fleets, including the regional jets that carry millions of passengers.
606 days, and #Congress still has not passed legislation to address critical safety recommendations from the NTSB.
Everly should be sixteen. Alydia should be thirteen.
606 days.
#SaferSkiesForAll #AA5342 #ADSBIn
My son Spencer was 16 when he died on Flight 5342, but the FAA's first rulemaking process on ADS-B, the technology that would have prevented the collision, began before he was born. 1/8
Those of us who lost loved ones when an Army Black Hawk collided with Flight 5342 can assure you that the value of pilot situational awareness on the night of January 29, 2025 was much higher than the value of a mediocre used car. 7/8
You can read my latest post about the FAA and airline industry's decades-long resistance to the ADS-B In technology that would have prevented the Flight 5342 tragedy here. 8/8
douglane.com/the-business-ca…