Ahead of the federal the head of the federal Aviation Administration Michael Whitaker reiterated to lummox bring a public hearing that their safety is a top priority and agency still reviewing boeings manufacturing procedures after a door plug mishap on board at Alaska Airlines flight. After the incident the faa cup really grounded over 150 planes and ordered inspections. This house transportation subcommittee hearing is about threee hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the subcommittee on a visual come to order. I hasis been in the consent of the. [cheers and applause] offers. Without objections order. Also ask members not of the baby people and ask question without objection. So ordered. As of monday members wish to consider dr. Parker please email to documentstimail. House. Gov. I now recognize myself for the purposes of an Opening Statement for five minutes. Thank you for being here, administrator whitaker and i want to first off congratulate you for your unan
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Inspections by the house transportation subcommittee hearing is about three hours. [background noises] is mick. [background noises] a subcommittee on a visual consort is unescos at the chairman authorized to declare recess without objections ordered also ask you nose consent subcommittee and ask questions that objection prints ordered. I was reminded members wishing to insert documents in the record please also email the documents i dont recognize myself for the purpose of an Opening Statement for five minutes. Thank you for being here administrator whitaker. I want to first off congratulate you for your unanimous confirmation vote. As you know achieving Something Like that in todays times is quite remarkable. Really appreciate your expertise head look forward to working with you. I hope you understand the strong support from congress but also enormous recognition of the responsibility of the job youve now taken on. We have heard a lot of descriptions about americas Aviation Industry.
Hearing lasts an hour and 45 minutes. Were a couple minutes but will get started. The subcommittee on safety aviation will come to order. I want to welcome everyone to our hearing today addressing close calls to improve aviation safety. This may be the most important hearing we have all year and i want to thank chair cat well, Ranking Member cruz and moran in their help to making this hearing happen. The near misses weve been seeing recently are not normal and are a warning our Aviation System is under stress. And today we will have an opportunity to hear from several Key Stakeholders about why were experiencing so many near misses and what we need to do to increase our safety margins. Well hear from National Transportation safety chairwoman jennifer hamady, chief operational officer tim worrell and rich santa, Airline Pilots association, captain jason ambrossy and former administrator randy back out. While disagreements tend to garner more coverage than compromise, its worth noting i
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