Duffy: Pilots should lose licenses if they disregard air traffic controllers
- Senior Captain Sherry Walker warned that inexperienced pilots pose a danger to air safety, noting it now takes only 350 hours of training to become a captain, compared to 8-12 years previously.
- Sean Duffy emphasized that pilots who ignore air traffic controllers should lose their licenses, insisting that the lack of consequences for errors is problematic for air safety.
- The US Transportation Secretary urged stricter penalties for pilots disobeying air traffic controllers after several crashes, highlighting that pilot error was a factor in these incidents.
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