Flights grounded across U.S. due to outage affecting air traffic control, FAA says
What happened
A communications outage grounded all flights across the United States for about four hours on November 13, the FAA said before lifting the stop.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the failure hit 22 regional centres that guide planes between airports, and blamed an overloaded legacy system.
FlightAware counted almost 6,000 cancellations, some on international routes, and recovery was expected to take time, The Hindu reported.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said investigators had no sign of a malicious act and would check for any link to a new AI system.
Flightradar24 reported about 3,100 aircraft already in the air when the stop began, and the FAA let them continue to their destinations.
Duffy had asked Congress on Thursday for $30.1 billion to modernise air traffic control and repeated that plea once flights resumed.
“We have old, old switches, old routers. We use 1980s little copper lines.”
The Hindu
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