A bipartisan airport runway safety bill that aims to reduce runway incursions and other surface safety incidents has cleared the Senate Commerce Committee and will head to that chamber’s floor, according to one of the legislators who introduced it.
Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) said Wednesday in a post on X that the Runway Surface Awareness and Focused, Effective Training and Technology (Runway SAFE-T) Act moved one step closer to becoming law. The bill’s introduction in August came a few months after an Air Canada Bombardier CRJ-900 collided with a fire truck while landing at LaGuardia Airport (KLGA), killing two pilots and injuring dozens of others.
