According to the US Air Traffic Control Authority (FAA), a faulty file was the trigger for the chaos of yesterday’s flight in the US. So far, there has been no evidence of a cyberattack, he said. Because of the computer glitch, no planes were allowed to take off on domestic routes for about 90 minutes yesterday morning. As a result, over 10,000 US flights were delayed and over 1,300 were canceled entirely.
It was the first national grounding since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York. One acted with particular caution, US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said, with a view to the start ban.
criticism from republicans
Criticism rained down, especially from the republican camp. The FAA’s inability to keep a vital safety system operational is unacceptable and the latest example of incompetence within the Department of Transportation, tweeted Republican Senator Ted Cruz.
Republican congressman Andy Biggs criticized on Twitter that, due to problems with supply chains and constant flight cancellations, Buttigieg had outgrown the post of Secretary of Transportation.
“The public needs resilient transport”
In a statement, Senate Transportation Committee Chair Maria Cantwell, a Democrat, wrote that an investigation would be conducted into what caused the outage. “The public needs a resilient transportation system,” Cantwell said.
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) also announced that it is continuing to investigate exactly how the incident could have happened. All necessary measures are taken to ensure that such a disturbance does not recur.