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Is It Safe to Fly? NYT Reporter on What’s Behind the Aviation Chaos

From Newark Airport's recent air traffic control outages to the January plane crash in Washington, D.C. that claimed 67 lives, there is rising concern about air travel safety in the U.S. Kate Kelly, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, has been examining the problems plaguing American aviation, and she joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss possible solutions.

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