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Sean Duffy: “In Newark a little less than a year ago, they lost their…”

Featuring: Sean Duffy, Republican | Secretary of Transportation | National

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ABC15 exclusive interview with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy

Published | Video Starts at 03:47

But all of the technology we're going to deploy over the course of the next three years is going to be helpful in making sure that you have a hardened system, a better system. I don't know if you saw In Newark a little less than a year ago, they lost their telecom, their communication with airplanes. So controllers couldn't talk to airplanes as they were in their airspace. That's a problem, right? So we're addressing all of these small issues that we have in aviation and modernizing that. (03:47–03:55)

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Asserts that Newark lost communication with airplanes less than a year ago.

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