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WASHINGTON — An inspector general says the government is hiring so many new air traffic controllers that it cannot efficiently train them.
The Transportation Department’s inspector general said the Federal Aviation Administration training program is swamped by new hires and has exceeded its own maximum trainee totals at 22 percent of its air control facilities. The inspector general said the FAA uses a database replete with errors to manage the training and has failed to implement remedial steps the FAA promised in 2004.
The FAA accepted most of the recommendations.
