The FAA's acting administrator is telling the agency's management board that “We are experiencing the safest period in aviation history.'
Southwest Pilots Union President Casey Murray calls for infrastructure improvements to the air traffic control system.wrote in a memorandum to the agency's management board that "we are experiencing the safest period in aviation history" just over a week after the military shot down a Chinese spy craft and three "objects" over the past several days."We are experiencing the safest period in, but we cannot take this for granted.
On Dec. 18, 2022, a United Airlines flight departing from Maui, Hawaii, climbed to an altitude of 2,200 feet nearly a minute after takeoff and then plunged to just 775 feet above sea level before climbing back up. On Feb. 4, a FedEx plane and a Southwest passenger plane came close to colliding while the FedEx plane was cleared for takeoff.