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A brazen attack on air safety is underway — here’s what’s at stake

At the end of July, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) convened a three-day public hearing to investigate January’s mid-air collision over Washington, DC that killed 67 people. After the hearing, two conclusions were inescapable.

First, the disaster should have been prevented by existing safety rules. And second, the government regulators responsible for air safety have become hesitant to enforce those rules, especially when it means standing up to industry demands for more flights and lower costs.

Instead of fixing the regulatory state’s institutional cowardice, however, the Trump administration is moving to undermine it ev …

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