Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy provided an update hours after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a ground stop of all flights in the U.S., explaining that the “routers actually got overloaded with data” to the point where they were getting “inconsistency in the data” from the routers.
\n\nDuring a press conference with Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin, Duffy explained that the U.S. has “an incredibly old air traffic control system.” Duffy’s comments came after the FAA issued an alert stating that “BY ORDER OF THE FEDERAL AVIATION COMMAND CENTER ALL AIRPORTS ARE GROUND STOPPED.”
\n\n“So, what happened? I’ve heard a lot of the rumors, like Markwayne has,” Duffy said. “But, what we have is an incredibly old air traffic control system. I think every single one of your networks have covered the President and myself talking about this for the last two years. The President, for the last year, has been asking Congress to fully fund a full build of a brand new air traffic control system.”
\n\n“So, we have TDM telecom. So, this is analog telecom,” Duffy continued. “Our switches, our routers actually got overloaded with data, and they went down. I shouldn’t say they went…
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