After 4 hours, US ends flight disruption

The US Secretary of Transportation stated that the outage occurred because 'switches and routers were overloaded with data and stopped working'.

After 4 hours, US ends flight disruption

TL;DR

  • The FAA lifted a nationwide suspension on takeoffs after more than 4 hours.
  • The outage was attributed to switches and routers being overloaded with data, causing them to fail.
  • The Secretary of Transportation had previously requested $30.1 billion from Congress for air traffic control system modernization.
  • This is the first nationwide suspension of takeoffs since January 11, 2023, which led to significant flight cancellations and delays.

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