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Last year, a group of experts from across the aviation industry were commissioned by the Federal Aviation Administration to look at ways that the agency could improve safety within the national airspace system (NAS) following a spate of near-miss safety events that captivated the nation at the time and spawned several National Transportation Safety Board investigations.
Seven months later, the NAS Safety Review Team (SRT) published a 52-page report that cited funding shortfalls, staffing issues and budgetary instability, among other things, as key problems facing the NAS today. Specifically, the SRT called out the “gridlock” in recent…