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Officials announced they have positively identified 55 of the 67 victims from Wednesday night's

mid-air collision between an American Airlines passenger flight and a military Black Hawk helicopter.

There are still many answers over how this could happen.

Authorities are advocating change regarding military aircraft and commercial airspace.

Well, here to talk about the latest information of what we know is former air traffic controller and CEO of Summers Capital, Rich Summers, who is also the host of the Rich Summers Report.

Thank you so much for joining us.

Steph, thank you for having me this morning.

So we have a lot to get to, but first, I want to give viewers some perspective.

You were an air traffic controller for 11 years.

What was that training like?

The training is very rigorous. So you go out to Oklahoma

City typically for the initial training. It's about three to four months. Once you get through

Oklahoma City, then you will be placed into a facility. Either go to a radar facility, which will be in a

center or an approach facility, which is all radar. and you're talking to the aircraft and the pilots

work in radar scopes, or you go to a tower. And so depending on your skill level and what

your experience is, you will go to one of the two. Typically, if you're higher skillable, you will

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