US flight cancellations reach 7,000 as FAA outage traced to contractor routers
Fox News reports 7,000 canceled US flights on Saturday, and a union says the FAA issue involved two contractor-owned routers updated mid-day.
7,000Canceled US flights on Saturday, per Fox News
Confirmed
- Fox News reports canceled US flights climbed to 7,000 on Saturday
Not yet known
- Whether the FAA outage was limited to two contractor-owned routers, as a union says
- Whether FAA employees conducted a risk assessment before the update
- Whether the FAA has confirmed the cause of the outage
What we know
Fox News reports canceled flights across the US climbed to 7,000 on Saturday. A union says the issue was isolated to two contractor-owned routers being updated mid-day and that FAA employees did not conduct a risk assessment.
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