Legislative Acts

 The Federal Aviation Act of 1958 was signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on July 26, 1958. The act created the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) to oversee the regulation of civil aviation in the United States and to create a national system of air traffic control (ATC). The act also established the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) to consolidate and coordinate existing government agencies involved in aviation.

The act was passed as a response to several incidents that occurred during the late 1950s, including an incident involving Eastern Airlines Flight 626 which crashed into a New York City neighborhood on October 31, 1957, killing all 23 people aboard. In addition, several other incidents prompted Congress to pass this legislation including; an incident involving Trans World Airlines Flight 708 which crashed into Long Island Sound on March 1, 1956; an incident involving Western Airlines Flight 9501 which crashed near San Diego on November 28, 1957; and another incident involving TWA Flight 102 which exploded over Boston Harbor on December 17th killing everyone onboard.

https://www.faa.gov/about/history/brief_history#:~:text=Birth%20of%20Federal%20Aviation%20Agency,-On%20May%2021&text=Two%20months%20later%2C%20on%20August,responsible%20for%20civil%20aviation%20safety.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/federal-aviation-act


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