Contact Congress about H.R. 3634: Safe Aviation and Flight Enhancement Act of 2023

Newer commercial planes would need systems that help crews find a crash site faster and recover flight data more easily. The rules would focus on long flights over water and future aircraft orders.

Modern Action explains what the legislation does, helps you choose whether to support, oppose, or ask for changes, and drafts a message tied to the bill, your stance, and the elected officials who can act on it.

Safe Aviation and Flight Enhancement Act of 2023 is a House bill in Congress.

Who this affects: This bill mainly affects airlines, aircraft makers, and aviation safety investigators. Airlines may need to buy aircraft with new recorder and location systems for future orders. Plane makers may need to build and certify those systems. Investigators and search teams could get crash-location and flight-data information faster, especially after ocean or remote-area crashes.

Why this matters: Plane crashes over water can be hard to find, and flight recorders can take a long time to recover. This bill tries to shorten that delay by making newer planes send better location information and protect access to flight data. Faster data can help investigators find causes sooner. Faster location information may also help search and rescue teams reach the crash area sooner, though the exact results would depend on the FAA's final rules and the systems airlines use.

Key provisions in H.R. 3634

• The FAA would have to write new safety rules. It must do this within 1 year after the bill becomes law.
• The bill covers newly built commercial passenger planes used on long flights over water. These planes must fly under parts 121 or 135 of federal aviation rules and must already carry both a cockpit voice recorder and a flight data recorder.
• Covered planes would need a way to recover required flight data without finding the recorder underwater. This is meant to avoid depending only on divers or underwater search crews.
• Covered planes would need to send crash-location information that cannot be easily tampered with. The information must be enough to show where the flight ended within 6 nautical miles of the crash point.
• Covered planes would need a low-frequency underwater locator attached to the aircraft frame. It must work for at least 90 days and be detectable by common search, rescue, military, and salvage equipment.

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Questions people ask about H.R. 3634

What is H.R. 3634?

Newer commercial planes would need systems that help crews find a crash site faster and recover flight data more easily. The rules would focus on long flights over water and future aircraft orders.

How do I support or oppose H.R. 3634?

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Who should I contact about H.R. 3634?

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