{"id":38664,"date":"2025-02-18T03:06:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T09:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=38664"},"modified":"2025-02-18T03:06:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T09:06:38","slug":"ex-acting-faa-administrator-now-is-the-time-for-air-traffic-control-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=38664","title":{"rendered":"Ex-acting FAA Administrator: Now is the time for air traffic control upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Billy Nolen,<\/u><\/a> a former acting Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator, said Monday that now is the time for air traffic control upgrades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[One of the things] I\u2019ve testified both before the House and before the Senate, that says the FAA oversees systems of systems and facilities that are between 40 and 60 years old,\u201d Nolen told NewsNation\u2019s Chris Stirewalt\u2002<\/u><\/a>on \u201cThe Hill.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo, I think it\u2019s an \u2026 opportune time for [Elon Musk], for others, to come in and say \u2026 first get a clear understanding of what\u2019s in play here, and then how we go about giving America the very best air traffic control system in the world,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trump administration began firing hundreds of employees at the FAA\u2002<\/u><\/a>on Friday, just weeks after a deadly crash outside of Washington, D.C., put a spotlight on the agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Monday, Delta Air Lines Flight 4819 crashed while landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport, according to an FAA statement emailed\u2002<\/u><\/a>to The Hill. The flight had taken off from the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP). The agency also said everyone on the flight had been evacuated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy\u2002<\/u><\/a>also said Monday on the social platform X that investigators from the FAA were on their way to Toronto and that he had \u201cbeen in touch with my counterpart in Canada to offer assistance and help with the investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this month<\/u><\/a>, Musk said his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was going to take on \u201crapid safety upgrades\u201d to the air traffic control systems with the FAA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith the support of President @realDonaldTrump, the @DOGE team will aim to make rapid safety upgrades to the air traffic control system,\u201d Musk said previously on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hill has reached out to the FAA for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thehill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Billy Nolen, a former acting Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator, said Monday that now is the time for air traffic control upgrades. \u201c[One of the things] I\u2019ve testified both before the House and before the Senate, that says the FAA oversees systems of systems and facilities that are between 40 and 60 years old,\u201d Nolen told […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":38665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[32391,3374,32390,24463],"class_list":["post-38664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-air-traffic-control","tag-faa","tag-former-administrator","tag-upgrade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38666,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38664\/revisions\/38666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}