Buttigieg's FAA Fiasco / Busybodies vs. Gas Stoves
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 13 January 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:22.0 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
| 0:27.0 | A snafu with the Federal Aviation Administration results in the canceling of 1300 flights. |
| 0:35.0 | As America's amateur chefs come out to defend their gas stoves. |
| 0:39.0 | Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:42.0 | We are joined today by my colleagues, columnists Alicia Finley and Kim Strassel. |
| 0:47.0 | Welcome and happy Friday to you both. |
| 0:49.0 | Our sympathies go out to any listeners who are trying to fly anywhere on Wednesday. |
| 0:53.0 | Not only were 1300 flights canceled because of the FAA's problem, but there were 9,700 delays. |
| 1:00.0 | And those are the kinds of huge numbers that cause a cascade through the airline system and can take days to iron out. |
| 1:08.0 | Alicia, this was not due to a problem with the air traffic control system as people usually think about it. |
| 1:15.0 | So can you give us a sense of what happened here? |
| 1:17.0 | So, Mayor Peter, now the Transportation Secretary, who did edge says that there was a quote, which in this nose-to-air mission system that the FAA uses to alert pilots of potential safety issues before they take off. |
| 1:34.0 | All pilots are required to consult this the Notem system before they take off. |
| 1:40.0 | Though a lot of them have actually complained that they're not terribly useful. |
| 1:44.0 | Some of these, you know, tens of pages long as they can sometimes have dates, you know, two months ago alerts. |
| 1:52.0 | And it's not really relevant to, you know, their flying. |
| 1:55.0 | So this system on Tuesday crashed. |
| 1:58.0 | The FAA was rushing trying to figure out what went wrong. |
| 2:02.0 | They couldn't figure it out exactly. |
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