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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Tara Copp

Trump begins firings of FAA air traffic control staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash

Aircraft Down - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal mid-air collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Probationary workers were targeted in late night emails Friday notifying them they had been fired, David Spero, president of the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists union, said in a statement.

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