TRANSPORTATION officials have sounded the alarm on the next airport at risk for a mid-air catastrophe – as one decorated Navy pilot warned about the disastrous flaws still plaguing air travel in the United States.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators have continued to push for more safeguards around air travelover a year since 67 were killed when an American Airlines plane crashed with an Army helicopterin Washington DC in January 2025.
Matthew Buckley, a decorated Navy F/A 18 Hornet pilot and former TOP GUN graduate, stressed that theantiquated air traffic control systemcontinues to be anissue at airports across the countrydespite the backlash over the crash.
“Our air traffic control system is stuck in the 60s, 70s,” Buckley, who was also a former commercial pilot for American Airlines and FedEx, told The U.S. Sun.
“We have phones now that could have powered the entire Apollo mission. We have GPS, we have so much incredible technology. It’s awful.
“It’s a disgrace. It’s an embarrassment to this country that our ATC system is the way it is.”
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His comments come after NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendywarned that commercial pilotshaveexpressed their concernsabout Hollywood Burbank Airport in Los Angeles county.
Homendy told a January 27 board meeting: “Burbank is one where commercial airlines have called me to say the next mid-air is going to be at Burbank, and nobody at [the Federal Aviation Administration] is paying attention to us.”
Source: Drudge Report
