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H.R. 3939

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To increase the safety for crew and passengers on an aircraft providing emergency medical services.
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Committee
Latest Action · October 24, 2007
Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
Congress
110th (2007–2009)
Introduced
October 23, 2007
Cosponsors (3)
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Requires a pilot of an aircraft providing emergency medical services to comply with federal crewmember flight time and duty period and rest requirements whenever there is a medical crew on board, without regard to whether there are patients on board. Requires the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to initiate a rulemaking to: (1) require pilots of aircraft providing emergency medical service to use a standardized checklist of risk evaluation factors to determine whether a mission should be accepted; (2) establish performance based flight dispatch procedures for such pilots; and (3) require, after a certain feasibility study is done, flight data and cockpit voice recorders on board such aircraft.

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