America Cancels 4,000 More Flights. FAA Denies Impact of New AI System.
UPDATE: FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said Saturday that U,S. airlines will likely cancel 4,000 to 5,000 of the roughly 41,000 flights scheduled for Saturday, reports Yahoo News. And as to the cause of the incident... [U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean] Duffy said a router involved in the switch from copper wire to fiber "started flooding other routers in our air traffic control system." The…
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has canceled 4,000 to 5,000 flights scheduled for Saturday, according to U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who attributed the disruption to a router issue related to the transition from copper wire to fiber. Despite initial claims by the FAA that a new AI-powered air traffic management system called SMART was not involved in the outage, congressional members had raised concerns about the system's safety, reliability, and oversight, questioning its development, training, and potential interference with controllers' decision-making.
The FAA has now found no evidence of AI-related issues in the outage, and Transportation Secretary Duffy has called for $50 billion to rebuild the aging air traffic control system.
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