Congress once again came right down to the wire, voting on a bill that would continue to authorize spending on the FAA at current levels for the next six months.
The current continuing resolution expires Saturday. After being beaten back by Democrats earlier this week on an extension, the House passed a bill Thursday that does not have any spinoff of ATC included, but does include additional hurricane relief for people affected by Harvey, Irma and Maria. It also included additional flood insurance and health care provisions that Democrats objected to in the earlier bill that was defeated on Monday. The Marine Corps is experiencing Class A aviation accidents, those involving loss of life or damage of over $1 million, that are as much as 670 percent higher than the Class A accident rate for the US Navy. Data from the DOD indicates that in the last six years, 62 Marines have been fatally injured in aviation accidents, compared to just 10 for the Navy. US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross has announced the affirmative preliminary determination in the countervailing duty (CVD) investigation of 100- to 150-seat large civil aircraft from Canada, finding that
exporters of this merchandise received countervailable subsidies of 219.63 percent. The Commerce Department will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection to collect cash deposits from importers of 100- to 150-seat large civil aircraft based on these preliminary rates. All this -- and MORE in today's episode of Airborne!!!
Airborne 09.29.17 is chock full of info in this Daily News Episode, Friday, September 29th, 2017... Presented by Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Hosts Brianne Cross, Christopher Odom, and Laura Hutson, and is supported by ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell, Chief Videographer Nathan Cremisino, and Aero-Journalist Tom Patton, this episode covers:
- FAA Funding Extension Squeaks By House, Senate
- Marine Corps Aviation Fatalities Are Six Times Those Of The Navy
- Department Of Commerce Upholds Boeing Complaint Against Bombardier
- New Hampshire House Committee Mulls Aircraft Fee Changes
- Barnstorming: Who’da Thought? ANN Defends the FAA!
- Gen. J.R. 'Jack' Dailey Honored With 2017 Wright Trophy
- DOD Inspector General: ‘Millions’ Wasted On Counternarcotics Plane
- Boeing, Qatar Airways Announce Order For Two 747-8 Freighters, Four 777-300ERs
- NAVAIR Engineers Target F/A-18 Physiological Events
- Rolls-Royce Reaches Services Contract With USAF For C-130J Fleet
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