But the Air National Guard is pressing forward with the plan with a goal of submitting a revised environmental impact report this year for the Federal Aviation Administration to consider. Fighter jet pilots who say the airspace is needed for low-level training have been waiting 14 years for a final answer. We want and we need this to happen," said Jamie Flanders, airspace manager for the Air National Guard. Critics among the 78,000 people who live in the sparsely populated training area — about 20 people per square mile — want the plan spiked. The proposal is led by the Massachusetts National Guard, whose fighters were first on the scene in New York after 9/11.

Source: ABC News January 16, 2017 14:30 UTC