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Duffy says he can offer air traffic controllers chance to stay past mandatory retirement age

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said he plans to encourage air traffic controllers to keep working past the mandatory retirement age of 56 .

The issue has come under the spotlight, again, following the midair collision near Washington Reagan National Airport last week .

Less than 1-in-10 airports around the country have the appropriate amount of controllers to satisfy the threshold.

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