The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of the United States has lifted this Saturday the order that had paralyzed all flights in the country, after nearly four hours of disruption that have resulted in thousands of delays and cancellations, after claiming "telecommunications problems."
"At this time we have opened the airspace. We have our centers and our air traffic control towers operational," the U.S. Transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, said during a press conference at the White House.
Duffy linked the halt of flights across the entire territory to the "obsolete" air traffic control infrastructure and directly called on Congress to approve more economic resources to carry out the modernization of the system.
In addition, the Transportation official detailed that the oldest telecommunications routers suffered a data overload, which caused technical failures and inconsistencies that forced the FAA to temporarily stop takeoffs as a preventive safety measure.