There could be up to 10-thousand planes in the sky at any given time according to tracking company FlightAware. Somehow, the number of minority pilots in the cockpit remains shockingly low.
"I had never seen a Black pilot," Omar Brock, a Black pilot himself, told FOX 5. "Simply becoming a part of the 3% that make up the pilot body means anything is truly possible."
Georgia Rep. Hank Johnson is hoping to change those statistics with a bill he recently re-introduced.
Brock used to work as a flight attendant, but the day he finally met a Black pilot changed the rest of his life. That was the moment he knew he wanted to be the one in charge in the sky.
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