Miles O’Brien: FAA Should Have Replaced Copper Wires Before Adding ‘Fancy Bells and Whistles’ to Air Traffic Control System

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O’BRIEN: “Yeah, it‘s like mayberry r.F.d., you know. Clara, get me aunt bee, you know, that kind of stuff. This is really old, old stuff. And you would think that would be the first thing they would start working on before they started putting on all the fancy bells and whistles. Uh, I think that‘s just fundamental common sense. And it goes right to the heart of safety, to the system as well. The system has a lot of layers of redundancy, and that‘s what made this fail safe today, fortunately. But we keep peeling away layer after layer of of redundancy and resilience.”