{"id":373722,"date":"2026-02-22T04:54:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T18:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/alert-act-how-congress-plans-stop-midair-collisions\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T04:54:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T18:54:23","slug":"the-alert-act-how-congress-plans-to-stop-midair-collisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=373722","title":{"rendered":"The ALERT Act: How Congress Plans To Stop Midair Collisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An aviation safety bill recently introduced in the US House plans to implement <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/ntsb\/\" >National Transportation Safety Board<\/a> (NTSB) recommendations that would require changes to collision avoidance technology, air traffic control development and training, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"257847\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Federal Aviation Administration<\/span><\/span> oversight practices, and helicopter routing. This comes after the final report and findings of American Airlines Flight 5342, a crash that saw 67 killed after a commercial aircraft, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/what-aircraft-us-army-have\/\" >US Army<\/a> Helicopter crashed above the Potomac River last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Airspace Location and Enhanced Risk Transparency Act, or ALERT Act, aims to address every safety recommendation issued by the NTSB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4491,396,420,16569,421,13746,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-safety","category-aircraft","category-faa","category-manufacturers","category-ntsb","category-safetyaudit","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=373722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373723,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373722\/revisions\/373723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}