Make New York Post a Preferred Source Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy revealed investigators are looking into whether a contractor’s error or a faulty router triggered a nationwide ground stop that snarled air traffic and stranded 1 million travelers Friday.
Workers from federal contractor L3 Harris were upgrading communication routers at a “remote location” when the system went down, Duffy said at a press conference Saturday.
“What we’re working to determine was whether we had incompetence – meaning, was it user error or installer error from L3 Harris, or did they install a faulty router? We haven’t determined what the fault was. Was it the router? Or were they not doing great work for us at L3 Harris?”
The transit boss emphasized that investigators “don’t believe” a cyber attack caused the widespread incident — but didn’t rule out the theory completely.
L3 Harris did not immediately respond to request for comment on the allegations.
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