The Trump administration expects to update and replace the entire nation’s air traffic control system, with President Trump saying Thursday morning that will work with Congress with a bill for that purpose.
The billionaire Elon Musk, a special government employee in charge of the newly created government efficiency task force, He said Wednesday that your Dogs team will work to make “rapid safety updates to the air traffic control system.” In Capitol Hill on Thursday morning, Mr. Trump suggested that Congress should finance a completely new air traffic control system, following the Black Hawk plane of Hawk last week in the air in the air near the air near the Ronald Reagan National Airport that killed 67.
The president said that he and the leaders of Congress will sit and “make an excellent computer system for our control towers, new”, instead of trying to improve the current system.
“I’m going to talk to John (Thune) and Mike (Johnson) and Chuck (Schumer) and everyone,” Trump said. “We have to meet and, like a single bill, just pass, where we get the best control system.”
The president suggested that the current air traffic control system is a technology and companies mosaic, and instead, only one or two companies and a set of equipment must work at all times.
“So we will have the best system and a lot of money, but it is not so much money, and it will happen fast, and it will be done by total professionals, and when it is done, you will not have accidents,” he added. “They are practically not possible to have.”
It is not clear how much a review like that cost, or how it would be feasible.
The Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, also said this week that the administration will make sure that the United States has the most innovative and technologically advanced air traffic control system. That is the mission of the Federal Aviation Administration, Duffy said.
As CBS News has previously reportedLess than 10% of the country’s terminal towers have enough air traffic controlle to meet a set of standards established by a working group included by the Federal Aviation Administration and the driver’s union, according to a news analysis of FAA data cbs.
Kris van Cleave contributed to this report.
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