Washington: There is no evidence of a cyber attack in the FAA system outage that grounded flights across the country on Wednesday and President Joe Biden has ordered an investigation, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.
“There is no evidence of a cyberattack at this point, but the President directed DOT (Department of Transportation) to conduct a full investigation into the causes. The FAA will provide regular updates,” Jean-Pierre said in a Twitter post.
Biden, speaking to reporters at the White House, said, “Aircraft can still land safely but not take off right now.”
US flights were grounded or delayed on Wednesday as the FAA scrambled to fix a system outage, with passengers told to check with airlines for updates.
Over 9,600 flights were delayed and over 1,300 flights were cancelled, according to FlightAware. This is the first national grounding of flights in about two decades.The number of cancellations and delays has continued to climb despite the agency lifting a ground stop.
President Joe Biden has ordered an investigation into an FAA system outage that grounded flights across the country Wednesday morning and said the cause of the failure was unknown.
