May 9th, 2025
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A helicopter and a plane crashed in January. This was bad. Now officials want to make the air traffic control system better and hire more people to help.
They say this will help keep people safe and stop problems like the ones at the Newark airport last week.
The transport boss wants to make the air traffic system better.
The old system has problems with the many daily flights.
We don't know if Duffy's plan will get enough money.
Duffy said: "We are working on it. We will make it better. We will build a new system for everyone."
But we don't know many details yet.
An expert said the system was okay, but not good enough for flying because people can die.
Jacobson thinks Duffy's idea is not good. But maybe more people will like it after the plane problems in Washington and Toronto.
Reports say the air traffic system is not strong. Some parts are old and might break. One time, planes had to stop because a system did not work.
The system is old and the airport is old, said Frank Lorenzo.
Old phone lines cause flight delays at airports.
A radar system in Philadelphia helps planes at Newark airport. It stopped working for a short time on April 28.
The FAA will change old wires. It will also get more people to be controllers.
We don't know when things will get better, but maybe by summer when the runway work finishes.
So, the FAA made fewer planes fly to and from Newark. This is to be safe. It means some flights were stopped. The FAA will talk to airlines to see how many planes can fly. On Wednesday, many planes did not fly at Newark. 42 planes did not leave, and 46 planes did not arrive. This is true even after one airline stopped 35 flights each day last weekend.
The FAA changed things little by little since 2003 to make flying better. They made a system called ADS-B. It helps people on the ground and other planes see where an airplane is. The helicopter in the accident in January did not use this system. So, people did not know where it was.
Duffy wants more people to be air traffic controllers. He wants to make it faster to start the school. He wants more students to finish the school. The FAA will give extra money to controllers who work longer.
It is hard to make the flying system better because the old one must work while they build a new one.
The problem is old. It is hard to fix. It needs money and good people. The FAA does not have enough money or good people.
May 9th, 2025
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