Trump Administration reveals the plan to revise the airport control system after the airport from Newark Airport

President Trump announced on Thursday that his government would like to replace the technology at thousands of flight control locations across the country and build six new coordination centers. Mr. Trump called a press conference, the transport secretary Sean Duffy Keep stuck to unveil the plan for a new air traffic control system.

“After decades originally – and we take ourselves reliable service a long time ago, air traffic control is long overdue for an overhaul for a remaking,” said Trump. “It has to be brought to a modern standard.”

The president also said that he was confident that the current system will remain “extremely safe” before the summer travel season.

Mr. Trump said his government wanted to replace the technology at more than 4,600 flight tax locations and build six new air traffic coordination centers. Officials said that the plan also has the purchase of 25,000 new radios, replaced over 600 radar devices and the installation of 4,000 new high -speed network connections.

In a coalition of the aviation industrial groups, it was stated that the plan required at least 30 billion US dollars. Last week, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee passed a proposal that would spend $ 12.5 billion to improve the air traffic control system. The aviation coalition said on Thursday that additional emergency financing would have to be spent at least $ 18.5 billion for improvements over three years. Duffy said reporters that the final number would take over the congress, which is currently being controlled by Republicans.

“It will be billions, many billions,” said Duffy, who was a congress member who represented Wisconsin from 2011 to 2019.

Duffy also said that the administration of the view is that the implementation of the plan would take up to four years.

The suggestions come months after the deadly collision of the mid -air collision in January between a helicopter of the army and a commercial aircraft about Washington, DC, that is examined. Duffy was asked if the suggestions could have prevented the collision.

“It's different,” said Duffy. “It could have affected the rescue of life … We had 85 almost failures on the DCA (Reagan National Airport), and I think all the airline's CEOs would tell them that all of the industry would tell them that this was dangerous, and we should have seen that it would cost life if we did not stop against the cross-hand in the DC region.

The announcement is made when the Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey continues to do with disorders after one Failure last week. Air traffic controls that lead flights to Newark Lost communication And their screens were empty for about 90 seconds on April 28th.

“We don't have a radar, so I don't know where they are,” said a controller with a recorded gear.

The Federal Aviation Administration said the failure took about 30 seconds and it took another 30-60 seconds for aircraft to reappear on the controllers' screens.

Duffy spoke about the failure during the event on Thursday and said that the main communication line drops and a security line was not switched on. He said the incident was an example of why the system has to be modernized.

“If we do not really fulfill the mission that we announce today, they will not only see Newakks in Newark, but also see Newakks in other parts of the country because it is an aging system,” said Duffy.

Several controllers continued Trauma vacation after the failure, which is at least partially due to a fried copper wire. There were also more than 4,000 delays and over 1,000 cancellations in Newark.

In an interview before Duffy's announcement, Ed Bastian, CEO of Delta Air Lines, announced CBS News that he fully supported the improvement of the air traffic control system.

“I don't say that working conditions are acceptable and I think the controllers do a great job in relation to the administration,” said Bastian in an interview for “CBS Sunday Morning”.

Bastian said it was certain to get on a plane, but he also said that the air traffic control system cannot be operated much longer in its current form.

“What we need is a significant investment of our government in modernizing air traffic control, from which I know this administration and I know that the Minister of Transport is obliged to deliver,” said Bastian.

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