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Ted Cruz: “You literally have controllers that are using radar and…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Sen. Ted Cruz on tariffs, Ukraine and midair scares

Published | Video Starts at 07:08

But one thing that is very clear, I believe we need to modernize our air traffic control system. Currently, our air traffic control system uses technology from the 1950s and 1960s. You literally have controllers that are using radar and little slips of paper and using computers that have floppy disks. And I'll tell you, if you ask your kids what's a floppy disk, they will have no idea. (07:08–07:16)

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Asserts that air traffic controllers use radar, paper slips, and computers with floppy disks.

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