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Imagine having to worry about political attacks on your daughter while grieving. The Secretary should be showing leadership and consoling the families and overseeing an unbiased investigation,
I think the president was nervous that he was going to be asked questions about his own administration’s policies that were deemphasizing air safety, and so he decided to have everybody chased down a rabbit hole of his DEI allegations with no evidence,
Kaine told CNN’s Jake Tapper I think they’ll do an investigation and it’ll probably come out the way I said it,
With that said, two things can be true at the same time, and we certainly have seen the deterioration of federal hiring standards in aviation administration and the president wants to increase those standards.”
But she quickly switched back and stated He [Trump] believes that it is still indeed and Americans should feel safe traveling our skies.”
Speaking on Friday, Leavitt said I’ve been involved in accident investigations, particularly like with space shuttle Columbia, you know, as an example, that we lost in 2003,
Kelly said on NBC's Meet the Press The president made very clear that he wasn’t blaming anybody, but he was being very explicit about the fact that DEI policies have led our air traffic controllers to be short-staffed. That is a scandal. Thankfully, it’s a scandal that the president has stopped,
Vance told Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo There is a very direct connection between the policies of the last administration and short-staffed air traffic controllers,
But let’s just say the person at the controls didn’t have enough staffing around him or her because we were turning people away because of DEI reasons.”
The president weighing in while bodies were still being recovered, blaming this on DEI, and, when pressed, he has no evidence to suggest it, was absolutely stomach-turning,
Virginia senator Tim Kaine told CNN’s State of the Union It’s often not one thing that causes a major aviation accident like this.” ... Trump,
As investigators work to establish the sequence of events that led to the mid-air collision, Kelly said Our mission since the start has been safety,
We’re going to surge air traffic controllers,
Unfortunately, at some point, all of you are gonna be gone. We're still gonna have the investigation open. We're going to make recommendations...We have several hundred recommendations open for aviation. You wanna do something about it? Adopt a recommendation of the NTSB. You'll save lives."
Tom Inman, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said at a press conference about the American Airlines crash on Saturday There are two big issues here. Number one, most importantly, again, you've got to have the right people at air traffic control. Air traffic control is short-staffed, and I think the elimination of DEI hires, DEI policies will allow us actually to hire the air traffic controllers that we need,
The software point is really important, though, because we know if you look at these old, antiquated air traffic control systems, it really does look like a video game. It's 30 years old. We've got better software. We need a federal government that's more responsive to the technology that's out there."
The air traffic control system doesn't work in America as effectively as other places in the world. Let's upgrade it. We should be the best. I need Congress' help on that one."
Duffy ... he said later on in the interview It has to be upgraded. That's in the works. It has been in the works for years. We have to rush this new system online because, again, this is the second time in two years it's gone down,
Staffing shortages for air traffic control has been a major problem for years and years,
That’s what our job is, to figure that out,
NTSB member Todd Inman said
