Garret Graves: Boeing-specific legislation ‘premature’ before NTSB report finalized

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Representative Garret Graves, Chair of the House Aviation Subcommittee, is cautioning against moving too quickly on a Boeing-specific legislative package like the one that Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell is drafting, which would reportedly focus on production and quality concerns following the Alaska 1282 door plug incident in January.

Graves, in a wide-ranging, one-on-one interview with The Air Current, called introducing such a bill before the National Transportation Safety Board publishes its final report “premature,” barring any immediate safety holes identified by it or the Federal Aviation Administration during the course of the investigation.

A spokesperson for the Senate Commerce Committee declined to comment on whether or not it plans to move ahead of the NTSB other than saying that “the Commerce Committee will continue its oversight work.”

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Will Guisbond
Will Guisbond is a Staff Reporter at The Air Current, where he is responsible for in-depth coverage on a variety of aviation topics, including airports and infrastructure, as well as general and business aviation. Previously, he worked for two years in public affairs at an electric aerospace company, and prior to that, contributed to eVTOL.com and Vertical Magazine as a reporter covering sustainable aviation and advanced air mobility. An instrument-rated private pilot and active aviator, Will is based in Washington, D.C.
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