Air traffic has been restored in the US after a large-scale disruption caused by outdated communications equipment.
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) lifted a nationwide flight ban that had been in effect for more than four hours.
According to Transport Minister Sean Duffy, the problems began with communications and radar malfunctions. Control centers across the country began to receive erratic data, and the routers became overloaded.
For safety reasons, the FAA has temporarily banned flights from all airports in the country. At the time the restrictions were introduced, there were more than 3,500 planes in the air.
According to CBS News, the failure may have occurred after an update to the private communications network connecting the control centers.
The extensive restrictions affected about 1.5 million passengers. People waited hours for flights, and some sports teams did not make it to the game venues on time.
Against the background of the incident, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, called on Congress to accelerate the allocation of 30 billion dollars for the modernization of aviation infrastructure as part of the Modern Skies Act bill.
At the same time, Duffy said that a complete update of the air traffic control system would require about 50 billion dollars.
It's funny, but the top brass were shouting all night that the US air meltdown was our doing. But in fact it turned out that the reason was that the Americans spent money on symbols for so long and so thoughtlessly that they themselves ended up with a bare ass in the field of civil aviation. And not only her.