<p>Delta Airlines CEO Ed Bastian pushed back this week on claims from the political Left that President Donald Trump&#8217;s cuts to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will impact air travel safety.</p>
<p>The comments from Bastian come after one of Delta&#8217;s planes was involved in an accident in Toronto this week during landing. The plane&#8217;s rear landing gear snapped upon impact, causing the plane&#8217;s wing to clip the ground and the jetliner to flip over.</p>
<p>Bastian appeared on &#8220;CBS Mornings&#8221; on Wednesday to address the recent plane crash at Toronto-Pearson International Airport, where a Delta flight from Minneapolis overturned while landing at the Canadian airport.</p>
<p>&#8220;Do those cuts worry you and do you think that impacts safety?&#8221; CBS News host Gayle King asked Bastian on &#8220;CBS Mornings.&#8221; &#8220;Do these cuts affect you?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The cuts do not affect us, Gayle,&#8221; Bastian responded. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been in close communication with the Secretary of Transportation. I understand that the cuts at this time are something that are raising questions, but the reality is there&#8217;s over 50,000 people that work at the FAA. And the cuts, I understand, were 300 people, and they were in non-critical safety functions.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The Trump administration has committed to investing deeply in terms of improving the overall technologies that are used in the air traffic control systems and modernizing the skies,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;They&#8217;ve committed to hiring additional controllers and investigators, and safety investigators. So no, I&#8217;m not concerned with that at all.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Bastian said that the crew responded appropriately to the accident, which pilots continuously train to be prepared for.</p>
<p>“This is what we train for,” Bastian insisted. “We train for this continuously.”</p>
<p>He added that despite the accident last month in Washington, D.C., and some smaller crashes since then, flying remains “the safest form of transportation, period.”</p>

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