Darryl Campbell

Even including the recent crashes, your risk of getting in a fatal plane crash is about 0.2 per million flights. So it's pretty small. Put another way, you'd have to fly about twice a day for almost 2,500 years before you get into a fatal plane crash.

Even including the recent crashes, your risk of getting in a fatal plane crash is about 0.2 per million flights. So it's pretty small. Put another way, you'd have to fly about twice a day for almost 2,500 years before you get into a fatal plane crash.

We're kind of fighting the emotional brain and the rational brain a little bit. But whenever we see one of those big plane crashes on the news, it obviously sticks with us.

We're kind of fighting the emotional brain and the rational brain a little bit. But whenever we see one of those big plane crashes on the news, it obviously sticks with us.

It takes two years to get a new air traffic controller from initial hiring to qualified enough to start actually working in the tower. It takes about that long for a pilot to get certified. This is just not a switch that you can turn on and off overnight. And I think to have that huge drain of experience and just personnel really put a lot of strain on the aviation system.

It takes two years to get a new air traffic controller from initial hiring to qualified enough to start actually working in the tower. It takes about that long for a pilot to get certified. This is just not a switch that you can turn on and off overnight. And I think to have that huge drain of experience and just personnel really put a lot of strain on the aviation system.

We know, for example, that almost 90% of the nation's air traffic control facilities are significantly understaffed, that a significant proportion of the control systems, radars, all the tools that air traffic controllers use in their day-to-day are sometimes decades out of date.

We know, for example, that almost 90% of the nation's air traffic control facilities are significantly understaffed, that a significant proportion of the control systems, radars, all the tools that air traffic controllers use in their day-to-day are sometimes decades out of date.

So they're in bad need of a modernization, and we just haven't really seen Congress come through with any kind of funding to do that.

So they're in bad need of a modernization, and we just haven't really seen Congress come through with any kind of funding to do that.

Even including the recent crashes, your risk of getting in a fatal plane crash is about 0.2 per million flights. So it's pretty small. Put another way, you'd have to fly about twice a day for almost 2,500 years before you get into a fatal plane crash.

We're kind of fighting the emotional brain and the rational brain a little bit. But whenever we see one of those big plane crashes on the news, it obviously sticks with us.

It takes two years to get a new air traffic controller from initial hiring to qualified enough to start actually working in the tower. It takes about that long for a pilot to get certified. This is just not a switch that you can turn on and off overnight. And I think to have that huge drain of experience and just personnel really put a lot of strain on the aviation system.

We know, for example, that almost 90% of the nation's air traffic control facilities are significantly understaffed, that a significant proportion of the control systems, radars, all the tools that air traffic controllers use in their day-to-day are sometimes decades out of date.

So they're in bad need of a modernization, and we just haven't really seen Congress come through with any kind of funding to do that.