Work to replace old wire caused air traffic control issue that grounded flights: White House
Officials said the outage stemmed from routine maintenance that overloaded old FAA equipment and stranded hundreds of thousands of travelers.
- On Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a nationwide ground stop for four hours, the longest in 25 years, causing thousands of flight cancellations and stranding hundreds of thousands of passengers across the United States.
- Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said routine maintenance by contractor L3Harris to upgrade copper wiring to fiber optics overloaded antiquated equipment, causing "intermittent" communications and radar gaps that triggered the shutdown.
- Nearly 25,000 flights were delayed and over 9,000 were canceled Friday, representing 14% of all departures, while travelers scrambled to book Amtrak trains and other alternatives to reach destinations.
- FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford stated Saturday that "the worst is behind us" and expects the system to be fully operational by the end of Sunday as airlines work through backlogs.
- Secretary Duffy urged Congress to approve $30 billion in funding to modernize aging infrastructure, calling the investment a "great end-of-the-year Christmas present for the American people" to prevent future disruptions.
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US Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said that the reason for the massive failure and the cancellation of 12,000 flights across the country was the contractor's attempt to replace old wiring. The United States authorities have ruled out the possibility of a cyber attack or foreign intervention due to a large-scale failure at the country's airports, RIA Novosti reported. Duffy clarified that the incident was caused by a contractor who carrie…
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Old copper wire may have caused air traffic control issue, U.S. transportation secretary says. Follow for live updates.
A faulty copper wire in an “incredibly old” telecommunication issue may have caused an air traffic control issue, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says.
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