8 days before the crash…

“The aviation security committee, which was mandated by Congress after the 1988 PanAm 103 bombing over … will technically continue to exist but it won’t have any members to carry out the work of examining safety issues at airlines and airports.”

https://apnews.com/article/coast-guard-homeland-security-priorities-committees-trump-tsa-d3e4398c8871ada8d0590859442e092c