Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, today questioned National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chair Jennifer Homendy on several traffic safety issues. Congressman Cohen also called her attention to a recently released study by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) mandated by legislation he authored that looked at whether smaller seat sizes and the shorter distances between rows of seats had an impact on passengers’ ability to safely evacuate aircraft within the 90 seconds required by law. The FAA study released last Friday said planes could be safely evacuated in that time. Congressman Cohen noted that the participants in the study were all under 60 years old and none had disabilities, or children, or pets, and were not representative of the flying public.
“Are you familiar with the completely absurd sample they chose to conduct this study and why it took them three and a half years to do it?” Congressman Cohen asked her. “The FAA totally bungled this.”
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