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Pete Buttigieg: “We had about 4 billion people get on an airplane on my…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 59:19

So like I said when we started our conversation, tens of thousands of people die every year in the country in crashes. We reduced that. We didn't end that, but we helped reduce it. And We had about 4 billion people get on an airplane on my watch. And zero crash fatalities in commercial airline crashes. So there's a safety one, two, the infrastructure bill. And we got 20,000 projects done and about 70,000 projects started. And that like, some of that's still playing out. (59:19–59:27)

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Asserts zero crash fatalities in commercial airline crashes during his tenure.

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