i am going to send that to you by e-mail. i am about 99.99 percent sure that it is exactly how you need to answer each question in order to get through the first phase. the first group of people who passed this new personality test are already being trained and some of them are in air traffic control centers and towers at this moment. the question you should be asking yourself is are you save in the skies? is there are 87,000 flights a day in the united states. 2 million passengers a day. this is an industry that creates $1.5 trillion for the u.s. economy. air traffic controllers are the backbone of that. the faa some what answers our questions, but for the most part everybody at the agency as well as people who may be involved in the cheating refuse to talk to us on camera. it is a report that will leaf you flabbergasted. i know you have been working on this for months. great work for your part.
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into tower one of the world trade center 45 minutes earlier. yes. there s definitely another aircraft that hit the tower. that s the latest report we have. i can try to confirm and i.d. for you, but i would assume he s somewhere over either new jersey or somewhere further south. okay. so american 11 isn t the hijack at all then, right? no, he is a hijack. american 11 is a hijack? yes. this could be a third aircraft. tape after tape played for the commission showed that communication between the faa, its air-traffic control centers, and the military was a mess. the technician who took this call from the faa immediately passed the word to the mission crew commander. he in turn reported to the battle commander. okay, american airlines is still airborne, 11, first guy. he s headed towards washington. okay. i think we need to scramble
that guy just passed us and that was not good. the ntsb says it was a series of mistakes and miscommunication but the key factors were the cargo jet was being controlled by a different controller than the 777. the controller handling the 777 failed to keep the plane below 20,000 feet as requested. the community tries very hard to learn everything it can from these events. we don t want any compromise of the separation criteria. that clearly happened. these events are taken very seriously. we continually try to improve. trace: the report does not say if the two controllers involved were disciplined or not. shepard: this is said to be one of the best air traffic control centers in the country. trace: and new york control has some of the most experienced air traffic controllers in the country. this has been a rash of close
we re talking about old equipment. some of these things from the dark ages as far as technology goes in the air traffic control centers. they are, but they re becoming more modern as the funding catches up there. the big problem that we re looking at right now is making sure controllers are practicing their professional responsibility, that personal responsibility that the faa continues to preach. scott brenner, good conversation. former member of the faa. thank you, scott. you re welcome, trace. the biggest part of our economy is getting a boost, right? it s thanks to you and everyone else in the country. the good news on consumer spending is next. plus, the young man who wants to be the first paralyzed driver in the indy 500 coming up next on studio b. more and more folks are trying out snapshot from progressive.