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Old Apr 9, 2007 | 5:19 am
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Unsafe to fly? Unions, auditors detail problems in the sky

http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_3006

Could U.S. skies be approaching the point where increasing congestion of airplanes, accelerating retirements of veteran air traffic controllers and Federal Aviation Administration labor policies increase the risk of flying?
Testimony at a recent congressional hearing raises that possibility.
And it wasn’t just union leaders who sounded dire warnings at the March 22 House Aviation Subcommittee hearing on reauthorizing the FAA. It was the non-partisan independent Government Accountability Office--the government’s auditors--too.
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