This year, some high-profile incidents in the U.S. have shaken public confidence in air travel.

We are coming on the air with breaking news out of Washington, D.C. where a commercial airliner...

In January, an American Airlines regional jet collided with an army helicopter near Ronald Reagan, Washington National Airport.

All 67 people aboard both aircraft were killed, making it the deadliest

U.S. air crash in more than 20 years. And this spring, Newark Liberty International Airport,

experienced a series of radar outages in the span of just a few weeks.

43, I am going to move you here because I just got told that the approach lost all the

radar, three and their four radar screens went black, and they have no frequencies.

That's audio from April 28th, when air traffic controllers experienced a 90-second system blackout

at Newark. They lost radar and the ability to communicate with aircraft. The outage resulted in

hundreds of flight delays and cancellations at one of America's busiest airports. The Trump

administration has vowed to rebuild the system. And earlier this week, Transportation Secretary

Sean Duffy testified on Capitol Hill where he thanked Congress for recently

approving $12.5 billion to modernize the air traffic control system. Our goal is to make air travel

not just safer, but also more efficient, state-of-the-art, gold-plated, best in the world.

Almost all of that money is slated to replace aging equipment and infrastructure.

But some U.S. air traffic controllers say there's a much deeper problem.

Nationwide staffing shortages.

Consider this.

The federal government is pushing to overhaul the nation's air traffic control system,

but will it fix employee morale?

From NPR, I'm Elsa Chang.

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