Deputy US Transportation chief expected to be FAA’s interim leader

Deputy US Transportation Secretary Polly Trottenberg is expected to be named FAA next interim leader, two sources told Reuters on Sunday. The source cautioned that appointment wasn’t final and could change, the sources said. The Wall Street Journal first reported the news. Acting FAA administrator Billy Nolen is expected to leave the agency on Friday, officials told Reuters last week. Trottenberg did not respond to a May 31 email from Reuters last Wednesday asking about a rumor that she could be tapped to take the interim job running the FAA. The United States has faced serious questions about aviation safety after a series of close-call runway incidents this year and a computer outage in January that led to the first nationwide grounding of departing passenger airliners since September 2001. The NTSB is investigating six runway incursion events since January including some that could have been catastrophic.<br/>