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Sean Duffy: “The system that I think that we use, and it's shameful that…”

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

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Secretary of Transportation's Address at FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center

Published | Video Starts at 07:14

You guys know this. We use floppy disks. You go up into an air traffic control tower and it's a third rate city in a third world country. The system that I think that we use, and it's shameful that that's the system we would use in the greatest country in the world. And it should have been upgraded before it wasn't done because it's hard, right? It's hard. How do we keep planes flying, landing, taking off at the same time changing over the technology? (07:14–07:21)

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Asserts that the current air traffic control system is inadequate for a country like the United States.

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