FAA and Buttigieg address rise in airline close calls.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg expressed concern about an increase in airline near-misses at a safety summit called by the FAA. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating six close calls at runways across the country since the start of the year. The lack of adopting seven NTSB recommendations related to airport runways, high turnover in the aviation industry since the pandemic, and increasingly congested airspace are all contributing factors to the troubling pattern of near collisions that contributed to the need for Wednesday’s summit.