DHS Chief Mullin Breaks Silence on Nationwide FAA Ground Stop and Telecommunications Outage!

What a day, right? Just to make sure we understand, there is no indication and we had no reason to believe that as of right now that this was a threat to the United States. This was a telecommunication outage throughout FAA. Out of abundant caution, we have grounded all the flights and all the flights are accounted for as incoming flights. Either internationally or the flights that are currently still in the air. We'll be dealing with those case by case. As you can imagine, there will be a Priority list as they start coming in, but as I will repeat myself, there was no prior indication. There was no indication as of yet that this was a nefarious attack against us. It's just a telecommunication outage as of right now. Terry Bowen, Terry Bowen. You're saying that there's no indication yet that this was a nefarious act. Does that mean that you just haven't seen the evidence and it's possible? That this could be either a cyber attack or some kind of an AI intrusion? Well, we don't want to get ahead of ourselves anytime something like this happens. I mean, the last time I believe that we've had a national ground stoppage was 9-11. Of course, through DHS, we're getting a ton of calls saying, is this a terrorist attack? Is this a terrorist attack? Everybody's safe. There is no reason to be concerned. About your loved ones, if they're flying or anything like that. I just want to make sure everybody's at ease about that. As we investigate what caused this, you always got to assume that as many cyber attacks that take place that you make that assumption. But as of right now, that's not known. So we're going to continue to work. The first thing we want to do is make sure we restore the communications. We get all the flights on the ground. And then we get back to normal operations. But we're gonna continue to work to find out what the root of the cause is. And so it's your assessment that Microsoft yesterday, the FAA today is a coincidence. I don't see any reason to connect those two at all. Those are separate issues. Yes. Just to be clear, can you definitively rule out that this is not a cyber attack? And how long do you expect this outage to last? What is the cost? So we're working with Secretary Duffy on this. We're not ruling out anything at this point. The first thing is the safety of everybody that's flying. We are assured that everybody is safe. Everybody that's gonna be in the air that's currently on a plane. Loved ones, as I said, we're going to get you on the ground and we're doing it in a safe manner. To say that we can rule out anything, that's not what we do at this point. The first thing we want to do is make sure everybody is safe and we restore operations. Can you talk about the specific system that is being affected right now? And we have seen some planes land at specific airports. Is that going to be the case at all airports? Any flights in the air will be allowed to land? The flights that are currently in the air, we have a ground stoppage. We still got to get the flights. Right. And so we're going to be dealing with those case by case. Please. I think you said specific. It's a telecommunication outage. I'm not going to get ahead of FAA. That's their lane to talk about. We were wanting to assure all the American people this isn't a a safety to the American people or or another 9-11. I think that's what a lot of people are trying to make the comparison to. And that's not the case. Subscribe to One India and never miss an update. Download the One India app now.