Trump to Ask Congress to Upgrade US Air Traffic System
- President wants legislation to replace ‘obsolete’ system
- Remarks follow deadly crash at Reagan National Airport
The air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) in Arlington, Virginia.
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President Donald Trump said he would speak to congressional leaders about legislation to create a US air traffic control system following a deadly crash at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, calling the current technology “obsolete.”
“We’re all going to sit down and do a great computerized system for our control towers, brand new, not pieced together,” Trump said Thursday at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington.