FAA suspends work of independent panel reviewing air traffic control
Source: Washington Post
Transportation
FAA suspends work of independent panel reviewing air traffic control
A panel of experts, including the former chair of the NTSB and former head of NASA, had been asked to evaluate the FAA’s oversight of traffic control operations.
May 6, 2025 at 1:00 p.m. EDT Today
Acting FFA administrator Chris Rocheleau, right, joins Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy on Thursday during a news conference about increasing the air traffic control workforce. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
By Lori Aratani
The Federal Aviation Administration halted the work of an outside panel of experts scrutinizing its management of air traffic control, a previously unreported move made just weeks after a fatal airliner crash near Washington raised questions about the agency’s abilities to keep the skies safe.
The panel had been tasked late last year by then-FAA Administrator Michael Whitaker to study ways to reduce conflicts of interest in the FAA’s oversight of air traffic control organization. The United States is unusual among modern Western countries in that the same agency that employs and manages air traffic controllers is also responsible for evaluating its own performance.
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