Richard Blumenthal: “Everybody is familiar with the hundreds, literally hundreds…”

“And these accidents that have occurred, the crashes in Nome, Philadelphia, Reagan, which you mentioned, and Toronto are just in a sense the tip of the problem because Everybody is familiar with the hundreds, literally hundreds of near misses that occur every year. And so I think the FAA has to be increased in, in its capacity, not cut and diminished as the Musk operation would do.” (02:30–02:38)

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