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Sean Duffy: “We are going to put sensors on our busiest runways so our…”

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

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Transportation Sec. Duffy on upgrades to air traffic control, enabling commercial space competition

Published | Video Starts at 03:32

It's like almost driving a car. You got to stay away from the planes that are around you. And again, a lot of that goes to pilot air. But We are going to put sensors on our busiest runways so our air traffic controllers can see planes and if they get close, they can warn them and more actively control them. Number one. But the near misses as well on, on runways. The one in Chicago with the Southwest airplane and I think was a Flexjet aircraft that was traffic across in an active Runway. (03:32–03:43)

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Asserts that sensors will be installed on busy runways to help air traffic controllers manage near misses.

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