Transport Minister Sean Duffy announced plans to support airport air traffic control systems with the latest technologies over the next four years, with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to determine “hot points” where close confrontations between the aircraft occur repeatedly.
This announcement came after an update to an investigation into a crash near Ronald Reagan Washington's National Airport in Arlington, VirginiaWhen a US Army helicopter and a US aircraft run by US Airlines collided over the Botomac River on January 29.
“We are here because 67 souls lost their lives on January 29,” Duffy told reporters on Tuesday.
The results have noticed that over the past two years, there have been 85 near Calls close to the national Reagan. Next calls were identified as accidents when there are less than 200 feet from the vertical chapter and 1500 feet from the side separation between the aircraft.
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Botomac River and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, January 30. (Lee Green in favor of Fox News Digital)
Duffy, who appeared on the results of the results, appeared, how the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) did not know about the “hot spot”, where a woman spoke near it repeatedly.
“We are about to differ, and if we do not change our way, we will lose our lives.” “It was not done. Perhaps there was a focus on something other than safety, but in this administration, we focus on safety.”
FAA has deployed artificial intelligence tools to take off through data and find additional hot points in the American airspace near airports to find cases similar to what happened in Rigan National.
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Transport Minister Sean Duffy holds a briefing conference in the crash of January 29, near Ronald Reagan Washington Airport. (Fox News/Pool)
Once the hot sites are determined, the Duffy team will implement changes to reduce the close meetings between the aircraft.
Duffy also said that he learned that air traffic control systems throughout the country are between 25 and 30, and some of them use flexible tablets as if they were stuck in the 1980s.
While the regime is old, Al -Amin emphasized that it is safe. Although the system is safe, Duffy said it needs to be upgraded.
“This should have happened four years ago, 10 years ago, 15 years ago,” he said. “But, at the present time, we are at a stage where we can do it already. We can do it really quickly.”
Transport Minister Sean Duffy holds a briefing conference on the crash of the deadly MADAIR on January 29, near Ronald Reagan Washington, which killed 67 people. (Fox News/Pool)
Duffy said the task may take up to four years to complete it.
The task requires the entirely brought in the new air traffic control system, and it turns from copper wires into a group of fiber and wireless systems and satellites.
The current radar system of the 1970s or early eighties of the last century, but Duffy wants to put the latest radar in its place and stations with the right screens and the best technology.
Stendta Airport Monitoring Tower in the United Kingdom (Nats UK)
He said: “We will deploy resources for the safety of the runway – a new technology that allows air traffic monitors not to use perspectives in the tower to know where the aircraft are, but in fact you have ground radar sensors in our airports that will allow air traffic monitors to know where the aircraft are.”
“We have heard a lot of new stories approaching Misses on the airport runway. How do you reduce this? Destroy perspectives and give them technology so that they can see their screens where each plane is located.
“By doing this, we will greatly improve our safety in the system.”
Technology, on the other hand, is not cheap, which the minister admitted.
In an environment in which the Ministry of Governmental efficiency is looking for ways to reduce costs and save money, Duffy explained to make promotions in the name of safety worth investing.
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Over the next two weeks, Duffy said he is planning to bring his plan to Congress and take their notes.
Once he passes the comments, Duffy said he is planning to return to Congress and ask for money in the forefront to expedite the process of upgrading air traffic control systems.
“It is not the matter that the Federal Aviation Administration did not want to do promotions,” he said. “It takes a long time. So, they have to give us money. We will later put our plan to do so very quickly.”
