FAA In-Flight Volunteer Emergency Services
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2001-09-24 — Volunteers for Safe Skies Act: S. 1443 (107th Congress, 2001), ‘Volunteers for Safe Skies Act,’ would have directed the FAA to establish a program allowing qualified off-duty police officers, firefighters, and EMTs to volunteer as in-flight emergency responders on commercial flights; the bill was referred to committee and did not advance. (novelty: 2)