Transportation Sec reassigates the public about air travel safety after a deadly collision
Transport Secretary Sean Duffy convinced the US public that air trips is safe after a A deadly aircraft accident Last week, which killed more than 60 people and a plane crash in Philadelphia, which remained 7 people dead.
Duffy, former Fox Business co-organizer, said “Angraham Angle” on Monday that Air Travel is the safest form of traveling in the country, and if the airspace was not sure, the Federal Air Force would extinguish it.
“Air Travel is the safest form of traveling in the country. So you can travel and feel good about it in US aircraft,” he said.
“This is the safest way of transportation, and again, I think we should take it as a public, but also demand that we cannot bear and fall. These are unacceptable.”
Random workers recover debris from the Potomac River after the collision of an American flight of Eagle 5342 and Black Hawk helicopter, as can be seen from Virginia, January 30, 2025. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)
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Duffy said the Agency would give the priority of security over environmental initiatives, social justice and diversity, equality and inclusion (dei).
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Duffy told the host Fox News Laura Ingraham that the staff was “too short” and the agency lost a lot of air traffic controllers during the Coid-19 pandemia.
Air controllers work in the control tower of the Ronald Reagan International Airport, because the efforts of the government to recover the remains of a commercial line and military helicopter that crashed earlier in the week continued on the nearby Potomac River in Arlington in Virginia on February 2, 2025. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)
“We have a plan. We will follow the air traffic controllers. We have some ideas about how we can quickly, faster than before and get, you know, smart, smartest men and women to the country In those towers“He said, adding that the new plan would be published in the coming days.
The former Wisconsin Congressman also called for an air traffic control system in the country, which he said had to be done a decade ago.
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“I think everyone is on board that this would happen, Democrats and Republicans,” Duffy said. “The president wants it. And so I think this is the time. Let’s fix the system and make sure it is even safer and even more effective.”
