Sean Duffy Offers New Details on How One Fix Spiraled Into Nationwide Ground Stop
When asked, the transportation secretary could not guarantee on Sunday that a similar air traffic meltdown would not occur again.
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When asked, the transportation secretary could not guarantee on Sunday that a similar air traffic meltdown would not occur again.
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As airways are still recovering from Friday's nationwide ground stop that led to a weekend of chaos, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that "we've got to get off old network, old telecom" as officials attributed the ground stop to aging system infrastructure and legacy technology.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said that "we have to get off old network, old telecom" after a telecommunication outage led to a nationwide ground stop on Friday.
The following is the transcript of the interview with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on Nov. 15, 2026.
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy tells Meet the Press he hopes Congress will take up bipartisan legislation to allocate more money for new FAA systems after a router upgrade disruption caused a nationwide ground stop.
Air carriers in the US canceled some 16,000 flights over the past 24 hours in the biggest such grounding since 9/11. Officials hinted that incompetence or faulty equipment, not malfeasance, is the cause.
Hundreds of flights are canceled or delayed after a national ground stop ended. CBS News' Kris Van Cleave, Anna Schecter, Lana Zak, Shawna Mizelle and Taurean Small report.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and other officials spoke about the nationwide ground stop that lasted for hours and stranded thousands of travelers on Friday.
Watch live coverage as Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy holds a press conference on the FAA outage that brought U.S. air traffic to a standstill after the Federal Aviation Administration ordered a nationwide ground stop for departing flights that lasted more than four hours.
The FAA ground stop came after updates to an older communication system managed by L3Harris Technologies, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said.
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The FAA on Friday night lifted a nationwide ground stop issued hours earlier over what DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin called a telecommunications outage. Mullin and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy took questions on the situation from the White House.
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy gives the timeline of the paralyzing FAA ground stop, which left travelers across the country stranded for hours. Duffy says the issue was due to old communications systems.
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