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Airport Runways Are Seeing More Close Calls

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

Daily News, News

4.14.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

P.M. Edition for May 25. Major U.S. airlines have gone 14 years without a fatal crash. But as Micah Maidenberg reports, a string of close calls on runways has regulators at the Federal Aviation Administration worried ahead of the summer travel season. Plus, we report exclusively that the Treasury Department is preparing to change how the U.S. processes federal agency payments if the debt ceiling is breached. Dion Rabouin hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Ah, the sound of spring cleaning.

0:03.6

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0:06.4

and sparkling kitchens with the carcass deen cleaner.

0:09.4

You'll be done before you know it,

0:11.4

with more time to pitch your feet up.

0:13.8

Find your carcass deen cleaner at carcature.co.uk

0:18.2

or a carcure retailer.

0:24.0

A series of close calls at US airports

0:26.4

has sparked government regulators' concerns

0:28.6

ahead of the summer travel season.

0:30.2

It takes like a lot of people to choreograph

0:33.2

safe air transportation operations every single day.

0:37.7

When you think about how big the country is

0:39.7

and how many people are out there

0:41.7

flying on runways every day of the week.

0:44.4

And Congress goes on break from Memorial Day

0:47.0

with no deal in place to raise the debt ceiling.

0:49.3

But there's a plan B.

0:51.1

This is a contingency plan

0:52.5

where treasury would basically start living paycheck to paycheck

0:57.0

to pay its bills rather than being able to pay bills

1:00.4

while ahead of time or think about payments in the future.

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