“We are analyzing all options, including a new air traffic control system,” Mullin said
The U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, stated this Friday, the 13th, that the situation of communication failure at the U.S. Air Traffic Control Centers will not be resolved quickly, but there is no reason for public alarm.
In a press conference, Mullin said that part of the communications was kept at certain levels and that the American president, Donald Trump, has already been informed of the incident. “We are analyzing all options, including a new air traffic control system,” he said. “The FBI will investigate whether a software update caused the widespread outage.”
Late in the evening the United States closed its airspace for the first time since 2023. Before that, the last time was after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
