How the last FAA ground stop in 2023 was responded to by the Biden White House
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The 2026 FAA ground stop was only the second one to occur nationwide since 9/11. The last time was in 2023, when the FAA's NOTAM system went down and pilots could not get their pre-departure paperwork.
On Friday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Duffy said aging, analog Time-Division Multiplexing (TDM) routers and legacy 1940s-era analog systems were the source of the problems, explaining that it got “overloaded with data” and started to experience the issues.
Watch above to see how then-President Joe Biden Karine Jean-Pierre spoke and responded to questions about the flight groundings.
Why did flights stop? Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/11/13/faa-system-failure-blamed-on-technology-updates/92770720007/
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On Friday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Duffy said aging, analog Time-Division Multiplexing (TDM) routers and legacy 1940s-era analog systems were the source of the problems, explaining that it got “overloaded with data” and started to experience the issues.
Watch above to see how then-President Joe Biden Karine Jean-Pierre spoke and responded to questions about the flight groundings.
Why did flights stop? Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/11/13/faa-system-failure-blamed-on-technology-updates/92770720007/
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