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Know any airplane mechanics? Wave of retirements leave some US industries desperate

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FILE - Aircraft mechanics work on the lift gate on the tail section of a C-130 cargo plane on Dec. 20, 2017 at Hill Air Force base in Ogden, Utah. (Photo by George Frey/Getty Images) WASHINGTON - Kwasi Bandoh, a senior recruiter for an airline, stood before a group of aviation mechanic students at their graduation ceremony last month and congratulated them for all having jobs.As some of the students began nudging each other, Bandoh realized that perhaps not every one of them had already been hired."Who doesn’t have a job?" Bandoh demanded, surveying the 15 graduates before him at the Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics' training facility in Hagerstown, Maryland. "Who doesn't?

Because I have a job for you."The crowd of about 70 friends and relatives, gathered in a hangar where the students had been trained, laughed appreciatively.

Fourteen of the 15 graduates did have jobs, and the only one who didn't had an interview lined up for the next day.As happy as the moment was for the graduates, it epitomized the struggles of recruiters like Bandoh, who are desperately seeking mechanics for the airlines, plane manufacturers and repair shops that need them.

Most of their existing mechanics are aging, and demand for travel is growing.Across the U.S. economy, other industries, too, face the same formidable challenge: Replenishing a workforce diminished by a surge of retirements that began during the pandemic and has continued since.

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