US official requests $50 billion to replace obsolete air traffic control equipment

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Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy noted that the Donald Trump administration "has been asking Congress for the last year to fully fund a full build of a brand new air traffic control system"

WASHINGTON, November 14. /TASS/. A malfunction in US air traffic control equipment was caused by outdated technology, and the US Congress must allocate $50 billion to replace it, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy told reporters.

According to him, the recent incident was due to "an incredibly old air traffic control system." Duffy emphasized that the Donald Trump administration "has been asking Congress for the last year to fully fund a full build of a brand new air traffic control system." "Give us the money to fix it," he urged lawmakers.

"I want Congress to give us emergency funding," Duffy emphasized, noting that he needed "$50 billion" to fix the issue. "Our routers actually got overloaded with data, and they started to give us inconsistency in the data from those routers. And because of that, we shut the system down," he added.

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