Duffy Briefing on Nationwide Ground Stop Stalls for Minutes as 3,500-Flight FAA Outage Draws Scrutiny
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Updated · The Washington Post · Nov 14
Duffy Briefing on Nationwide Ground Stop Stalls for Minutes as 3,500-Flight FAA Outage Draws Scrutiny
3 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · Nov 14
Summary
Saturday’s Transportation Department briefing on the nationwide ground stop was interrupted by microphone feedback, forcing Sean Duffy to halt and restart after several minutes.
Duffy had opened by praising air traffic controllers’ response to Friday’s disruption, while thousands of flights were still canceled Saturday even after the ground stop was lifted.
The livestream later resumed with Duffy testing the microphone as staff worked to fix the audio problems and continue the briefing.
The glitch added to scrutiny of the FAA response after a separate Saturday presser also suffered audio issues and officials said the root cause of the outage that grounded 3,500 flights remained unknown.