🔻The US air traffic control system is very outdated.
🖌Theo Leggett, BBC.
We don't know exactly what caused the current problem, but US air traffic control systems are known to be very outdated.
Last year, the US Congress approved $12.5 billion to upgrade these systems, but more funding is needed.
Just a few weeks ago, the Federal Aviation Authority pledged to replace by the end of 2028 systems that still depend on inverted disk, a type of data storage medium that was common in the 1980s and 1990s.