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Sean Duffy: “We don't lose anywhere near that number in air travel.”

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

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LIVE Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy holds a press conference

Published | Video Starts at 22:14

And that's true again. And we have to work on this number. We lose over 40,000 people a year in car crashes. Way too many. We got to bring that number down. We don't lose anywhere near that number in air travel. So, again, this is incredibly safe. But again, I think what I'm doing is learning lessons from what happened in the last month, but then also looking at what risks do we have in the future. (22:14–22:20)

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Asserts that air travel fatalities are significantly lower than car crash fatalities.

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