Transport Secretary Sean Duffy detailed how recent airline tragedy has given a “focus” on improving safety in the future.
Duffy announced plans to “supercharge” Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) air traffic controllers in February after many deadly planes crashed over the past two months.
“Every crash that happened in the first two weeks of my appointment has nothing to do with air traffic control, but it focuses on us,” Duffy said on Saturday in “My Views with Lara Trump.”
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy “Streamlines” the FAA Hiring Process amidst a shortage of air traffic control
The FAA announced its previous Twitter, X, in the hopes of “rationalizing” the eight-stage hiring process into a five-stage process and speeding up the employment time for “critical positions.”
The protocol changes are intended to cut off more than four months from the old process, he said.
moreover, The agent stated Candidates going to the FAA academy at Mike Monronney Airlines Center will “increase their starting salary by 30%.”
Duffy also highlighted the need for new wires, radios, terminals and other equipment for Fox News host Lara Trump.
“Eron [Musk] He claimed that time is the enemy of progress. If it takes six, eight, ten years – money changes, priorities changes, council changes, administration changes,” he said.
“So if you get money ahead of time and move fast, you can do that very quickly, but now you don't have five or ten years unless you do something. This system really fails and people's lives are at risk.”
Elon Musk's SpaceX engineers were deployed to the FAA to help modernize air traffic control
Duffy's policy comes after many Air disasters Over the past few months, 67 casualties have been born in the US, including an airborne collision of an Army Black Hawk helicopter with a commercial airliner in Washington, DC.
A few days after the DC crash, the country's most fatal aviation accident in more than 20 years, a Medevack plane plunged into Philadelphia Street, killing all six and one on the ground.
A further disaster continued, with 10 people killed in a crash in Alaska, and a crash in Arizona killed two.
In Canada, 21 people were injured when a delta plane erupted in flames after being covered during a collision Pearson Airport in Toronto February 17th.
Click here to get the Fox News app
Still, the Ministry of Transport continues to press the message “Flying is the safest way to continue traveling.”
Duffy repeated the message on Saturday.
“Flying in America is very safe,” he said. “I fly multiple times a week, but if I'm not safe again, my air travel will be closed.”
“If it's not safe, you won't fly.”
Alexandra Koch of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
