Buttigieg TARGETS Trump Over FAA Outage as America's Air Traffic Control System Faces Scrutiny!

Most extreme disruption that we experienced when I was secretary, which was what was called the NOTAM system going out, which triggered an outage that lasted about an hour to an hour and a half. There were actually four different systems and when one of them went out and another one could be brought online to cover that. So it is not clear to me why that redundancy did not prevent an outage of this magnitude. In terms of scope and duration, this is the biggest nationwide ground stop since 9-11. Okay everybody. All right Pete, do you want to just kick us off? Yeah, sure. First of all, obviously, like everyone else, very concerned about what's going on in the national airspace. Don't claim to have any inside knowledge. I'm approaching this as a member of the traveling public who has a flight tomorrow, but I know that lots of people's flights have been disrupted. I also know the kinds of people who work at the FAA and the Department of Transportation day in, day out. I imagine this is a very stressful day for them, but also they're very dedicated public servants, and obviously I am hoping that they'll be able to get this resolved quickly. Yeah, with that, happy to take any questions. Do you need guidance from the American public? Well, one thing I would say is passengers have rights, and so I should check the department's website and make sure you're familiar with the rights that, even in a non-controllable event, you have as a passenger and try to get taken care of by the airlines. You were transportation secretary. Well, what I'd say is that the system has many redundancies in it, so that normally if there's one point of failure, something else can catch it. Even when we had what was the most extreme disruption that we experienced when I was secretary, which was what was called the NOTAM system going out, which triggered an outage that lasted about an hour to an hour and a half, there were actually four different systems, and when one of them went out, another one could be brought online. uh to uh to cover that so it is not clear to me why that redundancy uh did not prevent an outage of this magnitude uh in terms of scope and duration this is the the biggest nationwide ground stop since 9-11. but again we don't know much I certainly don't want to speculate what do you make of criticism of the Trump administration that the Biden administration didn't do enough to upgrade the system we did a lot to upgrade the system when we had an outage i didn't stand there uh complaining about the Trump administration we got to work And I'm certain that that's what the career officials and the career day-to-day employees at FAA and USDOT are doing. This should not be about politics. What I will say, of course, is that there needs to be answers and there needs to be transparency about what happened. I imagine there will be a lot of interest on Capitol Hill. Obviously, there's a lot of interest in the public. And again, as a member of the flying public, as well as somebody who cares a lot about what goes on in the national airspace, I will have a lot of interest in getting answers to. Sorry one more time so I'll hurry. All I can say is that you know whatever differences I might have with this administration I am very much rooting for them to get this resolved as quickly as possible. Subscribe to One India and never miss an update. Download the OneIndia app now.