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Posted on 11/14/2026 11:10:55 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Work at a single location caused instability that led authorities to order groundstop; airlines rush to reset
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Saturday blamed Friday’s air-travel outage that caused havoc at airports nationwide on work being done to replace copper wires with fiber ones at a single remote facility.
He pointed the finger at the work of contractor L3Harris, which either installed a faulty router or was “not doing great work for us,” Duffy told reporters on Saturday.
“So what we’re working to determine was whether we had incompetence,” Duffy said. “Frankly, we’re going to hold people accountable.”
L3Harris didn’t respond to a request for comment Saturday.
The disruptions Friday, after authorities halted air traffic for more than four hours, left planes and crew members out of place for their next flights, and undoing the chaos caused by the groundstop is expected to take days.
“Operations are slowly returning to normal this morning,” Duffy posted to social media. “Planes are pushing back, taxiing, and taking off, and it is safe to fly.”
Authorities expect up to 5,000 of the 41,000 U.S. flights scheduled for Saturday will likely be canceled, said Bryan Bedford, administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration. As of early Saturday afternoon, more than 4,300 U.S. flights had been canceled. He said about 9,000 commercial flights were canceled Friday, as well as about 3,000 private jet flights.
Bedford said there was no evidence that the disruption was caused by AI-related issues or “anything nefarious.” He said that authorities, after observing instability in the system, ordered the groundstop “out of an abundance of caution.”
Airline schedules should be back to normal Sunday night, he said.
“I do think the worst is behind us, but we still do have a significant amount of recovery work to do,” Bedford said.
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They would say that, wouldn't they?
Bill Gates wants you to believe that AI is dangerous and needs to be controlled by him and his UN buddies.
Looks like you swallowed the Kool-Aid.
Found on X and run through grok fact checker
Is L3Harris to blame for the FAA ground stop?
They’ve run the FAA’s telecom backbone (FTI) since 2002.
Track record of issues on their watch:
▪️2005–2006: Multiple transition problems, including radar data loss at Chicago O’Hare tied to circuit count errors and coordination failures
▪️Nov 2009: Nationwide outage. Harris technician misconfigured a transition router. Blocked 75% of FTI traffic. DOT IG confirmed contractor error.
▪️Sept 2025 (Dallas): Fiber cuts by a local carrier, but FAA said “Oversight by L3Harris failed to ensure that redundancies in the system functioned properly.”
▪️Spring–Fall 2025 (Philadelphia/Newark): Repeated telecom failures. FAA put L3Harris on the emergency task force with Verizon. Redundancy problems again.
▪️Sept 2026 (Northeast): Primary circuit failure and cut backup affecting Philadelphia-linked traffic.
This time sources say an L3Harris update/reboot while installing new gear crashed the system. Officials blame “old equipment” and want $50B
L3Harris is a public company (BlackRock/Vanguard top holders). Current CEO Sam Mehta.
Current CEO Sam Mehta replaced Christopher Kubasik.
Doesn’t say much of the infrastructure if one noisy router can bring down the country.
The price of cheap labor turns out not to be.
Full of crap
The systems have redundancies built in for disaster preparedness...
D’oh.
If you believe that I have some swampland in Florida to sell you.
but the stock prices are up so everything’s great!!
Bill Gates is an idiot when it comes to AI.
Serious people ignore him.
You should too.
The system that was recently installed drew from streams of data. It did not “control” anything.
People are so brainwashed that AI is going to proactively going to “decide” to do something, and it will just “grab access” to these systems. That isn’t how it works. At all.
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