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Sean Duffy: “There's copper wires. Use analog, not digital. There's a…”

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

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Sean Duffy, Zohran Mamdani, and officials give updates on the fatal crash at LaGuardia Airport

Published | Video Starts at 19:20

I was speaking specifically in regard to the dollars that we need for the technological upgrade we have. Again, this was not tonight, but There's copper wires. Use analog, not digital. There's a whole suite of technological upgrades that we want to make that will make the job of air traffic controlling much easier. And again, it's a separate issue, but I think it underscores the point that the Congress does need to do their job and it's a bipartisan agreement. (19:20–19:33)

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Asserts that current air traffic control technology uses analog systems and copper wires, and upgrades are needed.

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