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Richard Blumenthal: “The FAA has been totally non-transparent with the traveling…”

Featuring: Richard Blumenthal, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Connecticut

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Senator Richard Blumenthal Discusses FAA Layoffs and Airline Safety on GMA3

Published | Video Starts at 02:13

Right now there is a shortage and there has been for a while and it's getting worse and it needs to provide more facts and information. It The FAA has been totally non-transparent with the traveling public. And these accidents that have occurred, the crashes in Nome, Philadelphia, Reagan, which you mentioned, and Toronto are just in a sense the tip of the problem because everybody is familiar with the hundreds, literally hundreds of near misses that occur every year. (02:13–02:18)

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Asserts that the FAA lacks transparency with the public.

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