>> announcer: this is "nightline." tonight, travel woes. how an historic pilot shortage is contributing to the chaos. >> we're exhausted. we're out there flying doing all that we can, but we have our limits. >> we're with the aspiring aviators crucial to closing the gap. >> my message is to go for it. once you set your mind to it, the doors will open. >> but just how long could the shortage last? plus, mo farah, superstar track & field legend. the secret he's hidden for years. >> most people know me as mo farah. but it's not my name or it's not the reality. >> revealing in a new documentary that he was trafficked as a child. >> she said if you say anything

they will take you away. >> how his story might help other survivors. >> it can happen to somebody like sir mo then in fact it can happen to any of us. >> "nightline" will be right back.

thanks for joining us. flight delays, cancellations, lost luggage. part of the chaotic costs of flying in the summer of '22.

part of the problem is an historic shortage of pilots. but training for the cockpit takes years, money, and lots of commitment. abc's transportation correspondent geo benitez met up with some young people who think they have the right stuff. >> there's nothing like that first time taking off in a small plane. you're just up there. you see a lot of stuff from a different point of view. >> it's so peaceful, so mind blowing that i'm in there myself flying. it's a dream come true. >> reporter: tennisha sullivan and casey klein are both at different stages of the same ne commercial airline pilots. >> to know what these buttons do, to know how to control the aircraft, you know, make it do what i want, it's really great. it's empowering. >> reporter: casey, why do you want to be a professional pilot so badly? >> it's hard to explain. there's never a question in my mind if i made the right choice. i don't know if everybody can say that about what they do. >> reporter: casey is a few

months away from even being qualified to fly commercially, and yet he's already been courted by several airlines. >> it's a pilot market. and across the board we've had more opportunity than we've ever had. >> reporter: that's because america's in the midst of a pilot shortage, the likes of which the industry has never seen before. it along with weather disruptions, increasing fuel costs, staff shortages across the board, and pent-up demand is making summer travel a nightmare. >> it's just been like nonstop cancellations. >> it's frustrating. it makes me feel powerless. i've been stuck in an airport basically for two days. >> my flight got canceled but i didn't find out till i got to the gate. >> reporter: one out of five domestic flights were delayed in 2022 so far. >> there have been extensive cancellations, delays, missed flights, frustrated people. airports can't process the passengers going through security. baggage is piling up. >> reporter: u.s. transportation secretary pete buttigieg just last week calling on airlines to do better. >> the bottom line is airlines

need to be prepared to service the tickets that they sell. >> reporter: the pilot shortage has been brewing for several years now but reached a tipping point at the start of the pandemic when airlines lost nearly all of their business. many major carriers moved to cut losses. >> the airlines got more than $50 billion in grants and wage subsidies from the u.s. government in 2020 and 2021. what happened, though, is that those grants, those wage subsidies didn't kick in until several months into covid, during which the airlines had already begun buyout offers and early retirement offers to various employees including their pilots. airlines lost more than 5,000 pilots to retirements. normally airlines collectively lose maybe about a third that number in each year. >> reporter: many pilots across the country are feeling stretched. just last month 1,300 southwest

pilots protested, citing that stress, fatigue, and schedule disruptions are making it harder for them to operate. >> we're xufted. we're out there flying, doing all that we can, but we have our limits. >> reporter: captain dennis tazier has been a pilot with american airlines for three decades and is a spokesperson for one of the largest pilot unions in the country, representing 15,000 pilots. >> unfortunately, we've had a tenfold increase on some days for what are called fatigue calls. that means the pilot may be legal but because of the exhaustion rate is not able to continue safely. >> reporter: but the solution isn't as simple as just hiring more people. u.s. airlines hope to add 13,000 new pilots this year, according to united airlines, but america produces only between 5,000 and 7,000 pilots annually. it takes on average three years to train someone like casey to become a newly minted commercial pilot. so this is the plane you fly now. >> yes.

>> reporter: but the plane you're going to be flying is what, 45 times bigger? >> by weight, yeah. it's about 45 times bigger. >> we'll kind of wrap around the end of the wing here. >> reporter: he's working as an instructor at atp flight school in phoenix, arizona. to rack up the 1,500 hours of flight time he needs for his career to take off. where are you in your training right now? >> so i just finished up about 1,100 hours. so i've got 350 or so remaining. it's within reach. i'd like to be a little closer, but there's light at the end of the tunnel finally. >> reporter: his training has come at an incredible cost. on average student pilots have to shell out upwards of $100,000. casey was able to take out personal loans to finance his dream. >> it's very difficult. you're essentially taking out almost a mortgage without any property to back it. it's definitely a financial commitment, yeah. >> reporter: the eventual payoff promises to be lucrative. a senior pilot with a major airline can earn about $450,000

a year. but the financial barrier of entry insurmountable for many. narrowing the pool of potential pilots. almost 95% of u.s. pilots today are male. nearly as many are white. major airlines now realizing they need to widen the pipeline to address the shortage. united airlines recently opened its own flight school, aviate academy, which subsidizes training in return for a commitment to flying for the company. >> our goal is to train 5,000 pilots by 2030, 50% of them being female or people of color. >> reporter: dana donati is the ceo of the academy and used to be apilot herself. >> so do you see yourself having this personal mission? >> yeah, i do think it's a little personal. when i started my aviation journey there just wasn't a lot of female representation. if there's anything i want to give back to this industry it's to make it a little easier for the females coming through. >> reporter: tanisha sullivan is a student here.

>> i grew up near an airport. i would see the aircrafts flying overhead and was always amatzed and wanted to do something like that. >> reporter: after graduating top of her class in college the valedictorian started a small business in tutoring to try to find her pilot training. >> i was working very hard. i'd have students in between flights, in between ground school, things like that. and it was challenging for sure. >> reporter: but it wasn't enough. she needed more capital and says being accepted into aviate academy was agame changer for her. >> i'd love to be a captain at united airlines. i really would love to mentor other students, especially young women. i also would love to open my own flight school one day. >> reporter: what's your message to other young women who might be watching this now? >> my message is to go for it. my message is you can do it. i did it. i used to have, you know, fears and doubts and uncertainties. and that's common. but the thing is once you set your mind to it and you decide

that this is something you want to do, the doors will open. >> reporter: while the pilot shortage won't be ending anytime soon, aspiring aviators like tunisia and casey are crucial to close the gap. casey has just accepted a conditional offer from a major airline, something that in the past would have taken him years more to secure. >> so what do you think? do you feel ready? >> i feel ready. i feel confident. it's going to be a big leap, but i'm definitely excited for it. the trajectory is looking very good. it's looking very good. >> our thanks to gio. up next, olympic legend mo farah opening up about a painful secret. moderate to severe eczema still disrupts my skin. despite treatment it disrupts my skin with itch. it disrupts my skin with rash. but now, i can disrupt eczema with rinvoq. rinvoq is not a steroid, topical, or injection. o pill,nca y,

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for years now the world has marveled at mo farah's speed as one of the greatest long-distance runners on the planet. his journey from africa to britain as a child an inspiration to many. but we're now learning a shocking new twist about his childhood, something he's kept hidden for decades. here's abc's trevor ault. >> reporter: sir mo farah, the four-time olympic gold medalist, one of the world's fastest long-distance runners. his athletic accomplishments turning his life in britain into a fairy tale of sorts, even becoming a knight. but despite his speed and determination, even he couldn't outrun the pain of his past. >> most people know me as mo farah, but it's not my name or it's not the reality. the real story is i was born in

somaliland, north of somalia. as hussein abdi kahin. >> reporter: the 39-year-old making that shocking revelation in a new documentary from red bull studios and the bbc called "the real mo farah." >> i was brought into the uk illegally under the name of another child called mohammed farah. >> reporter: it's a secret he's kept for more than 20 years. farah says as a child he was trafficked and forced into domestic labor for the family he lived with. >> it's so rare that you come across a story that is both universal and timeless themes and is this relatable. courage under adversity and, you know, the need to be seen for who you are. everyone thought that they knew mo farah. >> reporter: the news startled the world. >> so mo farah has revealed he was brought to the uk illegally. >> he was trafficked to london as a child. >> to work as a domestic servant. >> reporter: drew attention to

the plight of trafficking survivors. >> i think it's extremely brave. what we do know is that individuals that have suffered this type of trauma through abuse and exploitation carry it with them for the rest of their lives and quite often question themselves time and time again. if it can happen to somebody like sir mo who has achieved so much in his life, then in fact it could happen to any of us. >> reporter: it's estimated that at any one time there are more than 40 million people being trafficked across the globe. at 4 farah's dad was tragically killed in somalia's civil war. he was sent to live with a relative in the neighboring country of djibouti. from there he says he was illegally smuggled into the united kingdom. >> this is the visa document. >> yeah. this is the visa to come to the uk. and this was the document we came with. >> you would have been 9.

you hadn't turned 10 yet. >> yeah. that is my photo. but it's not my name. >> reporter: once he arrived in london, farah says he was forced into domestic servitude, told to keep quiet about his true identity. >> he arrives in the uk and he realizes very quickly that it wasn't what he was told it was going to be. >> he left somaliland with a piece of paper with his relatives in holland. he said that when the lady took him into her home she took the piece of paper from him and tore it into pieces and threw it away in front of him, and in his words he says it was at that moment "i knew i was in trouble." >> from day one the lady, what she did wasn't right. i wasn't treated as part of the family. i was always that kid who did everything. i don't know, more someone who works for you. that's your space, that's our space. this is what you do. if i wanted food in my mouth, my job was to look after those

kids. shower them, cook for them. clean for them. and she said if you ever want to see your family again don't say anything. if you say anything, they will take you away. >> domestic servitude is quite often the exploitation of vulnerable people, often younger people who are forced to work in private households behind closed doors. it's quite often the most hidden type of exploitation that we see. >> reporter: eventually, farah convinced the family to allow him to go to school in seventh grade. and at school he took a risk, confiding in his gym teacher, alan wattkinson. >> i was scared. but i couldn't go back there. and i couldn't go on with this anymore. and that's the point that i told him everything. >> mo told me he wasn't the son of the person that he was living

with. that he'd been brought over to do all the jobs, look after the smaller children. he also then explained that actually his name wasn't mohammed farah. he was removed from his family. that he was given a new identity and brought over here to do jobs and chores. >> reporter: that teacher would help him find a new place to live and eventually help him get british citizenship. but farah continued to think about the family he'd been torn away from in somalia as a boy. his mother also wondering about him, having no idea what happened to her son. farah's mother managed to get an audio recording to mo. >> she said if this is a bother, cause you any trouble, don't, just leave it. you don't have to contact me.

and i'm going of course i'm going to contact you. and at that point that's when i first called my mom. i just remember going, mom? yeah, yeah. how are you doing? how is hassan? he's doing good. and i remember that moment was just -- to know your mom's okay and she's alive. and they're all okay. for me it was like, everyone's okay. >> reporter: through two olympics and growing fame farah kept his true identity a secret. >> you came to the uk from somalia when you were 8? >> 8 years old, yeah. >> reporter: in talk show and media appearances he would say

he came to the uk to live with his dad. >> i just remember being excited and seeing my dad was a big part for me, was just going there. i was just excited to come off the plane, met him. >> quite often survivors don't want to talk about that trauma because it does retraumatize them. so keeping it hidden for so long is not uncommon and not unusual. >> reporter: farah has quietly visited his family over the years, recently bringing his young son hussein. the people who farah says took him have not been identified publicly or responded to the allegations. >> i hope the fact that sir mo has come out will be an inspiration that will allow us to have a much more open conversation about what's happening in the world. >> reporter: for farah his public revelation is just the beginning of living in his truth. >> i'm starting to understand me. me.

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and finally tonight, history installed on capitol hill. a bipartisan group of congressional leaders honoring an american hero and pioneer, the late mary mcleod bethune. house speaker nancy pelosi unveiling a statue of the 20th century civil rights leader,

educator and presidential adviser. >> she devoted her life to opening doors of opportunity for more americans. she did so by in her own words engraved on this statue, "i invest in the human soul. it may be a diamond in the rough." >> bethune founded a school for black girls that eventually became bethune-cookman university. she also helped establish the united negro college fund. bethune is now the first person of color represented in the capitol statuary hall. the child of former slaves replacing a confederate general. and that's "new "nightline" for tonight. you can watch all our full episodes on hulu. we'll see you back here at the same time tomorrow. thanks for staying up with us. good night, america. >> every killer might think they're pulling off the perfec crime until, well, it's not. what little breadcrumbs do they leave behind?

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