Topic - Jennifer Homendy

Homendy told McIntosh she believes agency leaders are sincere about wanting to improve safety, but the solution must be more than just sending a top-down message of safety and also actually listening to controllers in the field.

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But she ordered a change in seating arrangements after a supervisor elbowed an FAA employee in midsentence during testimony, prompting Homendy to say, "I’m not going to put up with that."

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