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Elon Musk Calls retired air traffic controllers to consider returning to work.
“There is a shortage of first -rate air traffic controllers. If you have retired, but you are open up to work, please consider doing so,” said Musk, who heads the government’s ministry (DOGE), published on X.
The Musk’s position comes after the transport secretary, Sean Duffy, said that he enlisted the technological billionaire and SpaceX engineers to take a closer look at the agency, who was struggling with staff shortages. However, Duffy, in particular, wants Musk to examine the alleged “obsolete” infrastructure on the Internet and the digital program.
Airlines urge congress to support air traffic control, modernize the FAA
Vice-president JD Vance has echoed similar concerns, saying that American air traffic control systems are obsolete and must be improved.
There was growing concern about a shortage of air controllers due to the growing number of close -up calls. Despite staff problems, the Trump administration recently moved To dismiss hundreds Employees of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in order to reduce federal spending. Some criticisms fear that this can exacerbate recent aviation incidents, but Duffy blamed these incidents on the lack of technological progress.
Elon Musk is seen after a meeting with Senator John Thune, RS.D., to discuss the government’s ministry of efficiency at the American Capitol in Washington, DC, on December 5, 2024. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call Inc Via / Getty Images)
Last week, Duffy asked for Musk’s help in the light of an American black army black Hawk with a regional Jet of American Airlines on January 29 in what was the deadliest American air disaster for over 20 years. The two planes fell into the Potomac river after the collision. Sixty-seven people were killed.
This incident was “a heartbreaking awakening which must be made to improvements”, previously wrote Duffy on X.
There have been several tight calls since the start of the year, including an incident on Tuesday when a Southwest Airlines jet was forced to perform a gas delivery maneuver after a private business jet is taxed on the same track.
Sean Duffy is sworn in as a transport secretary in Washington, DC, on January 29. (Chris Kleponis / CNP / Bloomberg / Getty Images)
Trump administration drawing hundreds of FAA workers
The actual administrator of the FAA, Chris Rocheleau, told employees that The DOGE team I am visiting more FAA installations – including the FAA headquarters – after the stops on Monday at the air traffic traffic control center and the Potomac Tracon in Warrenton, Virginia, Reuters reported.
After a visit to an installation of the FAA itself, Duffy expressed its surprise by learning that the FAA uses an apparently unreliable internet server and even manages certain programs on floppy disks.
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A spokesperson for the Transport Department previously declared to Fox Business in a statement that the FAA continued to hire and on board “air traffic controllers and security professionals, including mechanics and others that support them”. The spokesman also said that “the agency had retained employees who fulfilled critical security functions”.
Kristen Altus de Fox Business contributed to this report.
