U.S. aviation safety concerns need attention — lawmakers

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers said Tuesday recent incidents in the U.S. aviation system — including two near miss crashes and the failure of a key pilot computing system — raise serious concerns that need to be addressed.

House Transportation and Infrastructure committee chair Sam Graves, a Republican, said at a hearing on aviation safety the incidents showed the aviation system is in need of “urgent attention.” Representative Garret Graves, the Republican chair of a subcommittee on aviation, said “right now the alarm bells should be going off across the aviation industry — our system is stretched and stressed.”