The U.S. Congress needs to address serious concerns about the country's aviation system after recent incidents including two near miss crashes and the failure of a key pilot computing system, lawmakers said on Tuesday.
"Right now the alarm bells should be going off across the aviation industry -- our system is stretched and stressed," Representative Garret Graves, the Republican chair of a subcommittee on aviation, said at a hearing.
House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure committee chair Sam Graves, a Republican, said the incidents showed the aviation system is in need of "urgent attention." U.S. National Transportation Safety Board chair Jennifer Homendy said preliminary information showed a FedEx Boeing 767 cargo plane and a Southwest Airlines 737-700 that nearly collided Saturday were "probably under 100 feet vertically from each other" and the event could have been "catastrophic."
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