US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has not apologized for the problems that caused mass flight restrictions in the country.
Globalinfo.az reports that the minister has refused to apologize for the country’s biggest air transport crisis since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
He said the air traffic control system had not been properly upgraded over many years.
According to the information, the five-hour suspension of flights resulted in 12,000 commercial and private flights being canceled that day. At the weekend, thousands of additional flights could not be operated.
Note that, according to CNN, the last time flights across the United States were restricted was in January 2023, because of a malfunction in the alert system for pilots.
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