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Duffy and Mullin to Address FAA Nationwide Ground Stop at White House Briefing
Based on reporting by Washington Examiner.
The Brief
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin are scheduled to hold a press conference Friday evening at the White House, where they will discuss the Federal Aviation Administration's decision to halt all flight departures nationwide earlier that day. The FAA grounded flights due to a "rolling frequency outage" that disrupted facilities responsible for monitoring aircraft in the air.
As of late evening, the precise cause of the outage remained unidentified. Mullin noted that investigators are examining the incident and floated the possibility that a telecommunications issue triggered the disruption, though that has not been confirmed.
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