America faces shortage of air traffic controllers

As travel skyrockets to more than 87,000 commerical flights per day, the Federal Aviation Administration must now hire at least 1,000 air traffic controllers per year for the next ten years. Mandatory retirement is required for controllers at age 56.  

That could be difficult, though, considering Fox Business found during a six-month investigation cheating on tests to get into FAA training may be rampant. It has some up in arms.

House Aviation subcommittee chairman Frank LoBiondo, R-NJ, is demanding answers from the FAA, telling Fox Business, “We will demand answers to questions that were raised by your investigation. We want the safest air system in the world.”

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