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Congress Seeks To Tighten Rules for Alien Flight Students

By AIN Staff • AIN Staff

September 1, 2012

In the wake of a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report showing that foreign flight students can be cleared for flying lessons earlier than they would be cleared to fly commercially on U.S. airlines, the ranking Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee has filed a bill to close a loophole in the Alien Flight Student Program (AFSP).

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said that the Republican-led panel should quickly schedule a hearing to consider H.R. 6159, the “Flight School Security Act of 2012.” In a letter to Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), chairman of the transportation security subcommittee, he wrote, “H.R. 6159 would require all persons seeking flight training to be checked against the terrorist watch list before they receive training.”

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