Don't you think there should be a practical limit on the length of trains that both serves the railroads for efficiency, but not their optimal PSR?
Unfortunately, it looks like we are in a new era of railroading--a time where railroads think less is better.
I thank the gentleman for his recognition, and thank Chairman Lipinski for calling this hearing today.
How long can trains be? I have trains now running up the Willamette Valley that are 15,000 feet long going through city centers.
I think that these cuts, both on the private-sector side and on the Amtrak side, are putting us on a very downward path.
The pilots were the backup system. The pilots didn't know it existed.
I don't think we should be here today. I don't think 346 people should have died, and I believe that this was preventable.
[s]ince the 1950s, the FAA has relied on a system of delegating certain certification authorities to manufacturers. And it has done so safel...
How could we allow a safety critical system with a single point of failure? We do not allow that in the aviation industry.
But if they hadn't experienced it, they wouldn't be trained to deal with it.
Captain Carey, it says in your testimony, 737 MAX does not provide the same aircraft field to the pilots as the 737.