. delta 94, cancel takeoff times. tonight, close calls. it would have been catastrophic had a collision taken place. bird strikes. it s really hard to know how long we were going to survive trying to breathe in that. dangerous turbulence. this felt like a roller coaster. it is one of the days you count your blessings. unruly passengers. system meltdowns. we have been delayed three times. there are no more flights today that would get us there on time. america s aviation industry facing headwinds and life and death questions about the safety of passengers and the future of flying. cnn takes you into the air. on the runway and inside the tower to get the answers. flight risk, a cnn prime time special starts right now. good evening. i m kate baldwin. the faa is holding a safety summit to figure out what s happening in america s skies and tonight we re getting answers with a visual in depth look at some of the biggest concerns. we have simulations and fir
rollercoaster. unruly passengers [bleep] get off system meltdowns we have been delayed three times, there are no more flights leaving today that would get us there on time. america s aviation industry, facing headwinds and life and death questions about the safety of passengers and the future of flying. cnn takes you into the air on the runway, and inside the tower to get the answers. flight risk, a cnn primetime special starts right now. good evening, i m kate baldwin. the faa is holding a safety summit to figure out what is happening in americas skies. and tonight we are getting answers with a visual in-depth look at some of the biggest concerns. we have simulations and firsthand accounts. pete muntean, cnn transportation correspondent, and certified pilot even takes us up in a plane. and captain sully sullenberger takes us inside of a flight simulator. first, let s start with all of these near collisions. we are seeing far too many close calls o
Fallout from the pandemic just because there s been a bit of a brain drain at the airlines, that the airline sort of incentivize folks who were very experienced and relatively close to retirement, but not quite at retirement just yet, to leave the airline. because they were trying to downsize. and now the industry is also bringing on so many people all at once, not only the regional airlines, but they are matriculating up to the mainline carriers, that is a bit of a two-pronged problem. there s a lot of new people and a lot of old guard leaving the industry all at once. so, there s definitely sort of the complacency element that sully talked about and that others have talked about. but there s also this element that the airlines are really pushing the industry a bit too hard. there is maybe this sort of element that the airlines are just really trying to clamor to catch up, and they are struggling and being caught a bit flat-footed. that s kind of interesting. because when you put it
Everyone has an iphone. everyone has an instagram, so everyone is trying to get ahead of it. everybody is looking, i won t say for that moment of fame, but they re looking for something. everyone is looking for something to be relevant. i m really interested in the impact of the pandemic on this. the ambassador mentioned the pandemic. do you think this is still how much of this is fallout from the pandemic, pete? i think some of it is fallout from the pandemic because there has been a brain drain at the airlines, that the airlines incentivize folks very experienced and close to retirement but not quite as retirement yet to leave the airline because they were trying to downsize. now the industry is also bringing so many new people all at once, not only the regional airlines but matriculating up to the main line carriers that there is a problem here. a lot of new people and a lot of old guards leaving the industry all at once. so there is definitely sort of
Even obama who talked about diversifying and did it in certain ways but on federal judgeships overall, i m going to put it on the screen, just how few black women are on the federal courts writ large. all of them, not just the supreme court. obama put one black woman, partly because there were so few around at the time who were in lower courts. trump did zero. here s what biden has done in one year. of course, those other comparisons, they had more years. he already put eight on the court at the federal level and he said he would do that on the supreme court. could you talk to us for those of us who may not be aware of those disparities what that means. there s a huge disparity. women, of course, have been matriculating in law schools at the same rate as men for some time, but leaving aside the whole question of intersectionality and race and gender, even women are not reaching the top of the profession, the highest echelons of the profession. for black women, it s even more