If you’ve followed my show regularly over the past few months, you know that I’ve done a couple of monologues on the aviation industry.
The frequency of near-disasters in the sky has increased dramatically in recent years, and as I’ve noted, the increase began around the time that the Obama administration began a concerted effort to “diversify” the FAA, including air traffic control. According to a NASA database, which tracks self-reported data from pilots, we now average roughly five near-misses per week — more than double the number from a decade ago. And that’s not even getting into the obvious maintenance issues that have been popping up — including doors and wheels that have been flying off planes lately.
Given how terrible all of this looks from the outside, I wanted to get a better idea of what’s happening internally at the FAA and major airlines in this…
