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Pete Buttigieg: “In the four years I was secretary, we had about 4 billion…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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I mean, I got pretty upset with a lot of things about how aviation works as a passenger, which is why we push airlines so hard on passenger protections. But just In the four years I was secretary, we had about 4 billion passenger implantments... zero commercial airline crash fatalities. crash fatalities out of that 4 billion. In other words, what this kind of clunky, imperfect federal government has achieved is a standard of safety on a Ford of a … (17:59–18:12)

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Asserts that during his tenure, there were zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of 4 billion passenger boardings.

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