Sean Duffy
The Public Record
U.S. Secretary of Transportation in the Trump administration; formerly U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 7th District (2011–2019).
This is a system that’s, what — 25 at best, sometimes 50 years old. The Congress and the country haven’t paid attention to it, right? They expect it to work. And so now I think the — the lights are blinking, the sirens are turning, and…
There was some infrastructure breakdown related to how the information is relayed right now.
The DOD has promised radical transparency, they should tell us who is qualified to take a helicopter out of the Pentagon.
The system that we’re using is not effective to control the traffic that we have in the airspace today.
What am I supposed to do? I have multiple plane crashes to deal with now, and your people want me to fire air traffic controllers?
What am I supposed to do? I have multiple plane crashes to deal with now, and your people want me to fire air traffic controllers?
This staffing shortage has been a known challenge for over a decade, and this administration is committed to solving it.
If air traffic control is telling you to stop and you roll across the runway, thank God you have an airliner pilot paying attention.
A consequence-free space where you make errors, serious errors, and you don’t pay any kind of price for it, something’s wrong with that.
I witnessed firsthand the dedication, skill and rigor that our future air traffic controllers bring to their training and the urgent need to do all that we can to recruit more people to join in our shared mission of safety in our skies.





