Cause of FAA ground stop revealed after thousands of US fliers stranded, chaos at airports

Fuente: New York Post

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy revealed investigators are looking into whether a contractor’s error or a faulty router triggered a nationwide ground stop that snarled air traffic and left thousands of travelers stranded Friday. Workers from federal contractor L3Harris were replacing old copper telecommunications wires with fiber optic lines at a “remote FAA location” when the system went down, Duffy said at a press conference Saturday. 5 US Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy speaks during a press conference after the FAA issued a national ground stop yesterday, at the Department of Transportation in Washington, DC, on, November 14, 2026.