People stranded at the airport owing to the nationwide ground stop on Friday.
\n\nUS authorities are investigating whether a contractor's mistake or a faulty router caused a nationwide aviation disruption that stranded thousands of passengers and affected more than 8,200 flights.
\n\nTransportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on Saturday that workers employed by federal contractor L3Harris were upgrading communication routers at a remote location when the system failed, triggering Friday's nationwide ground stop.
\n\nSpeaking at a press conference, Duffy said investigators were examining whether the failure resulted from human error during the installation or a defective piece of equipment supplied by the contractor.
\n\n"What we're working to determine was whether we had incompetence – meaning, was it user error or installator 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?" he said.
\n\nDuffy said investigators did not believe a cyber attack was responsible for the disruption, although he did not entirely rule out that possibility. The precise cause of the failure remains under investigation.
\n\nThe disruption continued to affect air travel across the United States…
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