An employee of the Federal Aviation Administration who was recently hit by the massive dismissal by the Ministry of Governmental Efficiency of Elon Musk, talks about the potentially disastrous effects of the cutbacks.
David Spero, the national president of the professional aviation specialists, announced on 15 February that 132 probation staff with the FAA via e -mail were informed that their functions were terminated.
Department Secretary Sean Duffy replied in a statement that fewer than 400 people were fired, none of whom were air traffic controllers or critical security staff.
Despite the insistence of the White House that the cutbacks had no influence on safety, employees who were fired said that their positions supported the work of air traffic controllers.
“Air Traffic Controllers cannot do their work without us,” an employee told that the cuts are affected by polico.
“To be honestly, without our team … Pilots would literally fly blindly,” they added. The employee was cited as an anonymous source so that they could speak freely about the ends.
The cutbacks come only a few weeks after a collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport killed 67 people.
Jeff Guzzetti, an aviation safety consultant, emphasized the safety threat as a result of the cutbacks and told the publication that the dismissals 'will not improve safety', adding that they 'only increase the risk'.
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“I would claim that every job at the FAA is now safety crucial,” Guzzetti added.
Spero also sounded the alarm about safety problems after the dismissal and wrote in his statement: 'This draconian action will increase the workload and place new responsibilities on a workforce that is already thinly stretched.
'Personnel decisions must be based on the mission -critical needs of an individual agency. Doing differently is dangerous when it comes to public safety, “he went on.
“And it is especially unconscious in the aftermath of three fatal aircraft accidents in the past month.”
In addition to the fatal crash in Washington DC on January 29, a small plane with 10 people on 6 February in Alaska, and two private jets collided at Scotttsdale airport on 10 February, killing one person and four injured.
Four days after Spero had issued a statement about the FAA entries, two single-engine aircraft collided again in Arizona, killing two people.
The recent aircraft crashes have seen the FAA more eyes as concern about flying safety reactions.
Among the recent dismissals are employees who repair the buildings where air traffic controllers work, specialists in the field of aviation information, data assistants and employees in the safety and technical training department of the air traffic organization, Politico reported.
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An anonymous industrial officer also told the outlet that there were cuts in the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center in Oklahoma City, which is responsible for revising the safety of planes design standards.
The Flight Standards division is reportedly also lost lost employees, who assess whether airlines meet the FAA regulations.
Guzzetti said politico that cutting employees from these sectors will make it more difficult for existing employees to control the safety standards.
Employees who worked on a warning radar system to detect incoming missiles were reportedly also cut, according to the Associated Press.
The program is at the National AirSpace System Defense Program that offers classified flight data to the Ministry of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security.
Charles Spitzer-Stadtlander, one of the employees affected by the cuts, told AP News that he does not even think DOGE knows what the NDP is doing.
'This is about protecting national security and I am terrified. And the American audience should also be afraid, “he said.
Spitzer-Stadtlander believed that he was the target of Musk's Doge after he was critical of his personal social media accounts.
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He said that a Facebook account in connection with Doge began to bother him after he had criticized Tesla and X.
White House Pers Secretary Karoline Leavitt responded to the allegations on X and claimed that the story was 'fake news'.
1. Doge does not even have a Facebook page 2. No air traffic controllers nor professionals who perform safety -critical functions have ended, “she added.
Duffy also defended the terminations on X and claimed that the previous transport secretary Pete Buttigieg, “Four years failed to tackle the shortage of the air traffic controller and to upgrade our outdated Air traffic control system from the First World War.”
He added that the cutbacks had only less than 400 'probationary period' employees who were not critical security staff.
Duffy doubled on Wednesday in an interview with CBS News and defended the cooperation of the department with Musk.
'All critical safety positions such as air traffic controllers and inspectors, all those positions are protected. Nobody has been fired. We actually accepted those spaces. So 352 cuts are 0.8% of the workforce. '
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Duffy defended the endings during an interview with CBS News and said that Americans should be sure that it is safe to fly
Recent cuts on hundreds of employees at the FAA have expressed the safety problems with legislators
The Trump government has been clear in their support for Doge's efforts, but Democratic legislators have been critical of the cuts, in which members of the congress demanded that Duffy immediately reverses the decision.
Senator Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut, wrote an open letter to the secretary who condemned the dismissed, and accused Duffy of: 'Aviation recklessly cutting the security personnel at a time when many Americans are increasingly concerned about the safety of our national airspace and Whether the FAA is on the track to keep the flying public safe after a series of fatal accidents. '
A group of 13 senators also drafted a letter to Duffy who accused the FAA of the undermining of safety.
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