The Biden regime’s alleged Minister of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg, has no idea what knocked the FAA off line so “would not rule out a cyberattack as the cause.” He’s hoping that will turn out to be true, because it’s probably an infrastructure problem which would make it his failure. Yet again. Thousands of stranded travelers are following closely. He wanted to run the country and can’t even keep the freight moving or planes in the air.
FAA failure cripples Airline industry
They may have had to cancel your flight but you can blame that on the FAA. Southwest Airlines is quick to point out that this one wasn’t their problem.
A “massive system outage” grounded flights all across America on Wednesday, January 11. Analysts and officials are in panic mode over “vulnerabilities with the potential to cripple America’s critical infrastructure.”
When asked if domestic or foreign actors could have disrupted the FAA system in question, Buttigieg thought fast. “We’re not prepared to rule that out.” It’s a good thing nobody asked him how big a chance that was. He would have been lying if he hadn’t clarified, “not likely.”
—OFFICIAL #BREAKING NEWS: FAA experiencing computer outage; all flights nationwide grounded— per the kind Southwest staff and #NBCNEWS 🙇🏾♂️
Lobby call @ 4:30. Get to airport exhausted because I watched Forensic Files all night, then…There’s an FAA outage so no flights!🤬🥵#faa pic.twitter.com/AvKIiax7HV
— Brice Miller, Ph.D. (@iambricemiller) January 11, 2023
You have a better chance of hitting the big jackpot. The thing that snarled air transportation around the world was a crash of the NOTAM Notices to Airmen system which “sends safety information to pilots.” The Federal Aviation Administration runs it and Pete is their big chief.
Buttigieg was smart enough to cover his bottom by hedging. “There is no direct indication of any type of external or nefarious activity.” They’re hoping to find some though. The “FBI is conducting an investigation into the cause as well.”
Apparently they don’t trust the FAA to investigate themselves but nobody in America trusts the FBI to investigate anyone. We’re still waiting for them to raid Joe Biden’s basement. Especially now that we know what he hid in his garage.
How is this even possible?
The big question the traveling public wants answered is: “How is it possible for there to be this level of disruption?” Our Transportation czar says he wishes he knew.
The FAA he oversees may not know much but he has been informed, at high decibels, that “more than 4,000 flights were delayed and more than 600 others were canceled as of Wednesday morning.”
The outage only lasted a little more than an hour but the chaos continued as all the airlines picked up the pieces. Obviously there needs to be a backup system in place to get pilots the information they need.
BREAKING: This morning’s catastrophic FAA computer failure was likely caused by a mistake made during routine maintenance. An engineer “replaced one file with another,” not realizing the mistake was being made. @JoshMargolin pic.twitter.com/xymxgyETkr
— Sam Sweeney (@SweeneyABC) January 11, 2023
If someone at the FAA had managed to get out some texts, the crisis might have been avoided. What they were waiting on was basically the morning flight news.
Buttigieg’s department is in charge of alerting air crews to things like “issues with other aviation systems, upcoming events with the potential to disrupt traffic such as planned military exercises or blockages on airport runways.” The system “first began failing at 2 a.m. Eastern time, and the FAA ordered a halt to all domestic flights until 9 a.m.”
By the time Pete made his way to a microphone, flights “were slowly beginning to resume.” He claims it got his attention. “The gravity of the total seizure of U.S. commercial air traffic prompted many with deep experience defending against American adversaries to express new concerns.” According to retired Navy Admiral James Stavridis, “the airline national stoppage may or may not be a cyber attack but even if it is not, it certainly shows us what one could look like. Good wake up call.“
