The FAA blamed obsolete equipment for the Nov 13 outage that grounded all US flights for nearly five hours. The incident coincides with the rollout of a $875M AI air traffic management tool that airlines have praised but controllers' unions were not consulted on.
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The rare nationwide halt to all US commercial flights was lifted after 4.5 hours, with Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy citing outdated equipment as the root cause. The outage disrupted thousands of flights and drew scrutiny over the FAA's ongoing modernization efforts, including its new AI-powered air traffic management system.
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