U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said on Tuesday that a series of aviation close calls was "deeply troubling and deserve our immediate attention."
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said on Tuesday that a series of aviation close calls was "deeply troubling and deserve our immediate attention." The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is holding a safety summit on Wednesday with airlines, unions, airports and other industry segments after numerous recent near-miss incidents have raised safety concerns. "While there is no apparent single cause for recent close calls and investigations are ongoing, I want to make sure we are doing everything we can, at every level, to prevent them," Buttigieg wrote in a letter to participants at the planned safety summit.
The agency’s plan to eventually replace its gas-guzzling fleet with electric vehicles is good news, but so much more would be possible if Biden would take steps to expel the Trump appointee.