The United States lifted an hours-long nationwide ground stop after a legacy air traffic control communications system became overloaded and issued faulty data, causing more than 10,000 cancelled and delayed flights. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy blamed old hardware and sought $50 billion to overhaul the air traffic control system.
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said late on Friday that US airspace was now "opened up," and blamed "old hardware" for the travel chaos.
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no cyberattack
no connection between this and Microsoft
Our switches, our routers, actually got overloaded with data... They started to give us inconsistency in the data ...and because of that, we shut the system down
Let’s not do a patchwork fix to a system that’s critical for every single family
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prompting a nationwide ground stop that led to more than 10,000 cancelled and delayed flights.
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The transportation secretary, meanwhile, sought $50 billion to improve America’s air traffic control system.
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adding President Trump has asked Congress for $30 billion.
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Last year, the US Congress approved $12.5 billion over five years to modernise air traffic control, with a further $30 billion now requested, Reuters reported.
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The United States has lifted an hours-long ground stop at the nation's airports, with top officials telling reporters at the White House that the disruption was not due to a cyberattack or a sweeping Microsoft outage.
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