[FoxNews] A commercial airline pilot revealed to Fox News Digital what he believes is the reason for an uptick in close-call incidents involving aircraft in the U.S., and what must be done to fix the country's travel system.
According to data from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), there have been 1,583 close-call incidents in fiscal year 2023 versus fiscal year 2022, which had 1,730 such incidents.
A letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Sept. 5 from the House Oversight Committee stated that recent close-call incidents have "eroded the public’s confidence in air and rail safety and necessitates thorough investigation."
According to a New York Times report, the number of voluntary submissions involving close calls has more than doubled over the past decade with 300 incidents involving commercial airlines in the past 12 months, but doesn't say if the increased figure is a result of an increase in such incidents or more frequent reporting.
| Bottom line is that a large number of experienced, Air Force-trained pilots retired or quit rather than get the mandatory Covid shot. And their replacements are young civilians who are flight school-trained, which I imagine to be considerably less rigorous, then thrown in the deep end rather than getting a long apprenticeship sitting junior to one of those retired Air Force types. |
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