A single malfunctioning FAA router in rural Arkansas appears to have caused the air travel chaos that grounded all flights across the US Friday , according to a new report.
The problem originated at an FAA radio site in El Dorado, Arkansas, where a newly installed router flooded the network with excessive data traffic, disrupting communications between pilots and air traffic controllers , the Wall Street Journal reported.
“We saw two places that were actually pinging our network at a very high rate, a thousand connections over every four to five seconds,” Rebecca Guy, the FAA’s technology chief, said on Saturday.
The outage affected 17 of the…
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