Transport Minister Sean Duffy reassured the American audience that air travel is safe in the wake of A. DC killer crash Last week, more than 60 people were killed and a plane crashed in Philadelphia, which left 7 people dead.
Duffy, a former host at Fox Business, told “The Ingraham Ange” on Monday that air travel is the most travel forms in the country, and if the airspace is not safe, the Federal Aviation Administration will close it.
“The air travel is the most travel forms in the country. So you can travel and feel satisfied with that on American aircraft,” he said.
“This is the safest way to transport, and again, I think we should understand that it is as an audience, but then we also ask that we cannot bear these accidents. This is unacceptable.”
Emergency workers recover the debris from the Botomac River in the wake of the collision of the 5342 American Eagle Journey and the Black Hawk helicopter, as it appears from Virginia, January 30, 2025. (Reuters/Carlos Baria)
the National Transport Safety Council He is still investigating what happened after a Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American aircraft near Reagan National Airport late Wednesday night.
Duffy said the agency will give priority to environmental, social justice, diversity, fairness and integration initiatives.
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Duffy has told Fox News Laura Ingharaham that employment was “very short” and the agency has lost many air traffic controllers during the Covid-19s.
Air Force Writers at the Ronald Reagan International Airport are working as a recovery efforts by the authorities for commercial lining and a military helicopter that crashed earlier in the week in the Botomac River near Arlington, Virginia, on February 2, 2025. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)
“We have a plan in place. We will increase air traffic monitors. We have some ideas about how to do this quickly, faster than in the past and we get, as you know, smart, the smartest men and women in a country In those towersHe said, adding that a new plan will be issued in the coming days, “he said.
He also called on Congress in Wisconsin to upgrade to the country's air traffic control system, which he said should have been done decades ago.
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“I think everyone is on board to achieve this, Democrats and Republicans,” Davi stressed. “The president wants to do this. So I think this is the right time. Let's fix the system and make sure it is safer and more efficient.”
