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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy calls for overhaul of failing air traffic control system by 2028
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3:16Now PlayingTransportation Secretary Sean Duffy unveiled a multi-billion dollar plan to overhaul the nation’s failing air traffic control system by 2028, following a deadly plane crash and thousands of radar and communications outages horrifying officials, lawmakers and passengers alike.
“This is bold, this is gonna be challenging, but we absolutely can do it,” Duffy declared of the plans for a state-of-the-art system to replace the archaic technology causing some hair-raising emergencies and more and more flight delays and cancellations.
Duffy’s plan calls for at least six new air traffic control centers replacing 1960s-era facilities, swapping out old-fashioned copper wiring with fiber-optic, wireless and satellite technologies at 4,600 locations and replacing 25,000 radios as well as 618 outdated radars to stop the alarming near-misses from the up to 50,000 daily flights at US airports.
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