The United States has the “safest skies in the world,” but the Federal Aviation Administration’s systems are “antiquated” and need updates, and the nation is suffering a shortage of air traffic controllers, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Sunday.
Still, Duffy told “Fox News Sunday” that the skies above the United States are among the safest in the world, even with changes needed.
The Notice to Air Mission, or NOTAM, which is the FAA’s pilot warning system, suffered an outage Saturday night, less than a week after the deadly plane crash in Washington, D.C., that claimed 67 lives.
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