A malfunction in US air traffic control equipment was caused by outdated technology, and the US Congress must appropriate $50 billion to replace it, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told reporters.
According to him, the latest incident was caused by an "incredibly old air traffic control system." " Duffy emphasized that the Donald Trump administration "asked Congress for the past year to fully fund a complete build-out of a brand new air traffic control system. "Give us the money to fix it," he urged lawmakers.
"I want Congress to give us emergency funding," Duffy noted, adding that he needs "$50 billion" to fix the problem. “Our routers were actually overloaded with data, and they started giving us inconsistencies in the data from those routers. And because of this, we closed the system," he emphasized.