WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate’s top Democrat is calling on the Federal Aviation Administration to require all helicopters be equipped with data recorders after a deadly chopper crash in New York City.
Sen. Charles Schumer says the FAA failed for years to heed warnings from federal safety investigators and must act now to require the data recorders in helicopters, like they are in commercial planes.
The National Transportation Safety Board has pushed the FAA to implement its safety recommendation. But the agency says the FAA has claimed the benefits of recorders are “difficult to identify.”
