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Sean Duffy: “The system went down for 30 seconds in Newark on the telecom…”

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

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Sean Duffy and FAA Deputy Administrator Discuss Newark Airport Upgrades and Air Traffic Control Challenges

Published | Video Starts at 16:09

And again, there's, there's a lot of redundancy and a lot of procedures that keep people safe should this happen, which is what happened the two times that The system went down for 30 seconds in Newark on the telecom front at least. Yeah. You mentioned those outages last year. Air traffic controllers say they raised concerns about the stability of the system back then and that the FAA did not take their concerns as seriously as it obviously is now. (16:09–16:15)

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Asserts that the system experienced a 30-second outage in Newark on the telecom front.

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