The United States lifted an hours-long ground stop at its airports on Friday, with officials saying old equipment, not a cyberattack, caused the disruption. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the airspace had reopened at 8:15pm Eastern Time and warned that clearing the travel chaos would take time.
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The United States on Friday lifted an hours-long ground stop at the nation's airports, with top officials explaining that the disruption was due to old equipment and not a cyberattack or sweeping Microsoft outage.
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At 8:15 tonight Eastern Time, we've opened up the airspace,
Now does that mean every flight is going to fly right now? It's going to be slow.
Our switches, our routers actually got overloaded with data, and they went down,
It's the old hardware that went down, and I think the question for the American people is: Do you want your Congress to fund this?
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The breakdown came a day after Duffy and the White House had formally asked Congress for $30 billion to upgrade and modernize the US Air Traffic Control System.
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told a late-night briefing at the White House that US airspace was now "opened up," while warning it would take time for the travel chaos to clear.
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