Transport secretary Sean Duffy was about how recent airline tragedies the department gave a “focus” on Increased future safety.
Duffy announced his plan in February for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ‘s Air traffic controllers crash in the past two months after countless fatal aircraft.
“All crashes that happened in the course of our first two weeks at the office – they specifically have nothing to do with air traffic control, but it has given us a focus,” Duffy said on Saturday “My opinion with Lara Trump. “
The FAA will “streamline” its eight -step recruitment process in a five -step process, with the hope that it will speed up the time to hire for “critical positions”, Duffy announced to X, formerly Twitter.
The change in protocol is intended to shave more than four months of the old process, he said.
Moreover, the Agency It will “increase the starting salaries by 30%” for candidates who go to the FAAs Academy in the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center.
Duffy also emphasized the need for new threads, radios, terminals and other equipment for FOX News -Gastheer Lara Trump.
“Elon (Musk) has pointed out that the time is the enemy of progress. If it takes six, eight, 10 years – change money, change priorities, change congresses, administrations change,” he said.
“So if we can get the money in advance and move quickly, we think we can do it very quickly, but if we don’t do anything now, we don’t have five, 10 years. This system will really have failures and the life of people will be in danger.”
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Duffy’s policy comes after a number aircraft In the United States in recent months, including the collision in the air of an army Black Hawk -Helicopter with a commercial passenger plane in Washington, DC, which resulted in 67 victims.
Days after the DC -Crash, which was the deadly aviation accident in the country in more than 20 years, a fellow air aircraft fell in a street in Philadelphia, killing all six on board and one person on the ground.
More disasters followed, with a crash from Alaska who killed 10 and a crash from Arizona who killed two.
In Canada, 21 people were injured when a Delta plane broke out in flames after destruction during a crash landing at Toronto’s Pearson Airport on February 17.
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Yet the Ministry of Transport continues to push the message that “flying remains the safest way to travel.”
Duffy repeated that message on Saturday.
“Flying in America is incredibly safe,” he said. “I fly several times a week, and again, if it was not safe, air travel would be closed.”
“You will not fly if it is not safe.”
Alexandra Koch from Fox News Digital has contributed to this report.
