accidental. the faa initially says the damaged database file may have been something simply uploaded to the system during the routine uploading of notams, the critical safety alerts for pilots. not totally clear what caused this all to come down, although the faa does say now that it was really personnel, human error. pete muntean, appreciate it. coming up, more on the breaking news about the classified documents prompting a new special counsel to investigate president biden and his handling of them. big wireles are busy spending billions on advertising. at m mint we re not into wastining money. so we bought this spiffy stock footage for $500. our footage also came with another hand, so we can let you know if you switch to mint, you ll get three months free on all of our plans. even unlimited. feels like that deserves an exclamation point. whoa. easy, easy. to finally lose 80 pounds and keep it off with golo
vintage hardware that needed to be replaced. that system failure this week caused delays and cancellations of some 7,000 flights and prompted the first nationwide ground stop of flights since the september 11th terror attacks. the faa is blaming the chaos on its own employees. the agency says the database file was damaged by personnel who failed to follow procedure. meanwhile, critics are shredding the man who is in charge of all of this, transportation secretary pete buttigieg. this is what infuriates me. give someone a job. where is a resume? he was mayor of a town. they called him pothole pete. unqualified for the job. julie: pete buttigieg s big airline glitch adding the buck stops nowhere. sean duffy, fox news contributor and former wisconsin congressman joins me. dan, a former senior advisor for
so a full explanation for an fa computer outage today that grounded travelers from coast to coast. but officials now say they have traced to a corporate database file. it knocked out a system for sending vital safety bulletins the pilots need to know before taking off. cnn s omar jimenez reports one when stan flights went nowhere. so i come in. like i said, this is a nationwide issue. it is not just a local issue. this is how the day started at airports across the u.s. someone s day. a nationwide bounced up from the federal aviation administration, the largest societal around. the ripple effects of the
morning is understanding exactly how this was possible and exactly what steps were needed to make sure it doesn t happen again. and omar jiminez joins us now. what more do you know about this apparent database glitch? reporter: yeah, anderson. so, the faa is saying that prevalent preliminary traced the damage to the database file. they re echoing what we ve heard from the biden administration to this point that they don t believe this was a cyber attack. as to how we got to this point, a source familiar with faa operations was telling cnn it was yesterday they noticed issues with the computer. ultimately a corrupt file was found, but they made a plan to reboot the entire system early this morning before the morning rush. when they did, it took a lot longer than they anticipated to get the system fully back to a level where it was pushing out that pertinent flight system information that allows planes to fly and land, in some cases
it is an outage that was caused by that damaged database file. how unusual is this, do you think, and why were they not any back ups in place? it is any back-ups in place? it is extremely any back-ups in place? it is extremely unusual- any back-ups in place? it is extremely unusual and - any back-ups in place? it is extremely unusual and it i extremely unusual and it suggests there are back ups but clearly the back up system either didn t work or wasn t activated. so there are multiple points of failure that need to be investigated and importantly we need the results of those investigations to be shared with the public. find of those investigations to be shared with the public. and how lona do shared with the public. and how long do you shared with the public. and how long do you think shared with the public. and how long do you think an long do you think an investigation of this nature might take? as my colleague gary 0 donoghue was reporting there, lots of questions being ask