11K Flights, 15 Lakh Passengers Grounded: What’s Happening To US Flights?
| A technical glitch in the US air traffic control system halted flight operations for nearly five hours. Over 1,000 flights were cancelled and around 10,000 delayed nationwide. Aviation authorities said newly installed equipment disrupted radar and communication systems. Although flights have resumed, airlines are struggling to clear the massive backlog. Donald Trump also raised the possibility of a cyberattack.
One of the biggest geopolitical development with regard to the United States is currently happening in the form of the ongoing downtime regarding the flights system. This scenario came up in the United States earlier today, and it has become a major global news already.
Going into the story, a massive air traffic control outage brought US flight operations to a grinding halt for nearly five hours, leaving thousands of passengers stranded at the airports.
Over 1,000 flights cancelled and nearly 10,000 delayed nationwide. In total more than 11,000 flights are affected in this process.
It is being reported that the aviation authorities say that the newly installed equipment overloaded the old system, disrupting radar and communications.
Flight operations have now resumed, but airlines continue to deal with massive backlog. With several thousands of flights getting rescheduled and over 1.5 million passengers facing extreme delay in commute, it has to be seen how the scenario would be dealt with.
In the meanwhile, United States, president, Donald Trump has rolled out the possibility of this grounding operation being caused by AI or any other cyber attack.
This happens to be the biggest such flight mobilisation operation since the 9/11. In fact, this is reported to be the biggest grounding operation with regard to civil aviation in the United States in history as such a huge volume of lights and passengers had never been affected in the past.
The latest updates are suggesting that the United States Homeland security has categorically allowed flights to resume operations now, but the backlog needs to be cleared as well.