everybody has gotten complacent because the skies for commercial air travel have been safe but during covid a lot of people were fired and let go and they had to be rehired. so they called it the summit churning. there s been a lot of churning of employees and people in the aviation industry and churning is a really bad thing in the aviation industry because you re made safe but up to date and consistent training and familiarization. those are the two things that spell for safeties in the skies and that s missing when you have been churning your employees. well what else would you like to see done to address this issue? well, there are other things, for example, the national transportation safety board which investigates air crashes has many things on their wish list, some have been on their list for 23 years. two of them stand out. one, the national transportation safety board wants cockpit voice recorders to record a full 25 hours rather than two hours. and that was important bec
happen in the future when we have more of a congested airspace? reporter: the ntsb renewing its call for longer cockpit voice recordings. right now the devices in the u.s. only keep two hours before being overwritten. the ntsb wants 25 hours. we don t have cockpit voice recorders in any of the six runway incidents. reporter: meanwhile, the faa says it plans to hire 1,500 air traffic controllers this year, 1,800 next year. lester. gabe gutierrez, thank you. in texas today scary moments at the san antonio zoo. a tree falling onto visitors sending several people to the hospital. blayne alexander has late details for us. go, go, go. oh, my god. reporter: it took just seconds for this terrifying scene to unfold at the san antonio zoo. officials say a massive tree branch unexpectedly broke and fell injuring two adults and five children, one of them critically. it happened just after noon right in the middle of a busy
these recommendations or identify why they re not. secondly, she pointed out that the most important step was extending the reporting time of the cockpit voice recorders from two hours to 25 hours. they don t have the information to decipher and determine what happened at these events because the recorders only record two hours and they don t catch the event because they record over them. those two steps alone can advance safety today if they were implemented. those are action items, right? things that people can do, be held accountable if they do not. but they re recommendations. why can t they become regulations especially that regardless of party people don t want their airplanes clipping one another, god forbid there is something more serious that happens on the runway.
about to land at austin s international airport as a southwest airline 737 was told to take off from the same runway. the national transportation safety board now tells cnn the fedex crew aborted their land i plans unprompted and started to climb averting disaster. they saved in my view 128 people from a potential catastrophe. reporter: ntsb chair says that the two planes came within 100 feet of colliding in thick fog. it comes three weeks after another near collision at jfk where a delta air lines flight abruptly stopped it takeoff as an american airlines flight taxied across the runway in front of it. cancel takeoff plans. reporter: the ntsb says this both cockpit voice recorders timed out after two hours and not 25 like the agency
r runway. the national transportation safety board tells cnn the fedex crew aborted unprompted and started to climb averting disaster. fedex is on the go. they saved in my view 128 people from a potential catastrophe. reporter: the two planes came within 100 feet of colliding in thick fog. it comes three weeks after another near collision at jfk where adel delta flight abruptl stopped the takeoff as an american airlines flight taxied across the runway in front of it. 1943 cancel takeoff plans. reporter: the ntsb says in both incidents, cockpit voice recorders timed out after two hours and not 25 like the agency recommended leaving investigators without key clues. the ability to have accident