[Video] Follow-Up: Transportation Secretary Duffy Holds Press Conference in Washington on Nationwide Ground Stop Response and Flight Recovery
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy holds a press conference in Washington on the morning of November 14, Eastern Time, to brief on the response to the November 13 nationwide ground stop and the recovery of flight operations. The U.S. Department of Transportation streamed the press conference live on its official channel; the briefing has now ended, running about 56 minutes, and the replay is embedded on this page.
The briefing is the Transportation Department's dedicated next-day update on the ground stop. On November 13, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ordered all departing flights at U.S. airports held on the ground over an air traffic control communications problem; the ground stop lasted more than four hours and was lifted that evening, and nearly 6,000 U.S. flights were canceled on Friday.
According to the Associated Press on November 14, the disruption carried into Saturday: more than 2,500 U.S. flights had been canceled and hundreds more delayed, as airlines worked through Saturday to restore their schedules and reposition aircraft and crews.
On the evening of November 13, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and Duffy told a White House press conference that there was no evidence the failure was a cyberattack, and called on Congress to fund an upgrade of the aging air traffic control system. Key points from today's briefing will be added in a follow-up once the Department of Transportation releases an official transcript.
Related: [Video Follow-Up: FAA Lifts Nationwide Ground Stop After More Than Four Hours; Nearly 6,000 Friday Flights Canceled, Weekend Schedules Still Disrupted] (Source: U.S. Department of Transportation)
Source: U.S. Department of Transportation
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Photo: 图：位于华盛顿的美国交通部总部大楼（1200 New Jersey Ave SE）。照片：AgnosticPreachersKid，CC BY-SA 3.0，经 Wikimedia Commons，本图已裁为 16:9。 / Photo: U.S. Department of Transportation headquarters (1200 New Jersey Ave SE, Washington). Photo: AgnosticPreachersKid, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; cropped to 16:9.
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