Air traffic control experts told Congress the U.S. is “not the gold standard in aviation anymore.”
After multiple deadly plane crashes across so far this year, officials delivered a stark message last week to a House committee as family members of those who died in January’s mid-air collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport were in the room.
“This did not have to happen,” Paul Rinaldi, who spent 30 years with the FAA, half as an air traffic controller and half leading the controllers’ union, was quoted.
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