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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Saturday suggested an FAA contractor might be to blame for Friday’s telecommunications outage, which grounded flights nationwide and led to thousands of cancellations.
Speaking at a press briefing at Transportation Department headquarters, Duffy said that “in at least one of our remote FAA locations, a contractor was doing routine maintenance to switch telecommunication lines from old copper wire, and they were bringing it over to fiber.”
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