Senate committee rejects raising mandatory US pilot retirement age

Pilots outside aircraft

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A US Senate committee has voted down a measure in the Federal Aviation Administration’s five-year spending reauthorisation bill that would have raised the mandatory pilot retirement age from 65 to 67 years old. 

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