House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said there is no need for an investigation into the ground stop issued by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday, instead highlighting the need for “investment.”
“We don’t really need any investigation … we need further investment,” Johnson said during an interview with Fox News’s Saturday in America. “I mean, some of this equipment dates back to the eighties so it’s gotta be updated and that’s our responsibility. We’re gonna work to get it done.”
The FAA issued the nationwide ground stop around 4 p.m. EST on Friday. The rare protocol was in place for over four hours. The agency’s last widespread stoppage, which lasted approximately 90 minutes, was in January 2023.
More than 4,500 flights within, into or out of the U.S. were delayed as of Saturday afternoon with over 5,000 canceled, according to flight tracking website FlightAware. Total reported delays on Saturday crossed 15,000.
Based on everything they’re saying insteadof calling for an investigation…they know exactly what went wrong. And it all boils down to an attempt to “upgrade an outdated system”, and “we need a lot more investment, before we’ll see results”.
That’s AI, folks. They’re trying to find a way to integrate AI into the air-traffic control systems…and they fucked the whole thing up.
“We don’t really need any investigation” - everyone ever who really should be investigated
Always the stooge trying to cover up for Trump’s blunders. They didn’t need an Untested AI add-on to fix air traffic control. They need to pay workers well enough so it’s a viable career for people to choose so they aren’t so understaffed. The infrastructure is old, but this outage was sloppy AI implementation.
What they really need to do is hire some government employees strictly to upgrade and maintain the air traffic network
They claim a contractor, from a company linked to multiple air traffic events, was changing networking equipment from the old stuff to IP networking, and presumably they misconfigured a router and caused a packet storm
Personally, I do think it was probably some slop AI configuration that is to blame, but even if their incident report is accurate… Why the hell are we letting a little contractor with a bunch of big problems touch our super important special network?
In any sane world, we’d create a few teams to become experts on the system, and pay them well to take full responsibility for the network forever. It’s a very important legacy system, we need specialists on the payroll, not to hire the lowest cost bidder
So it’s Trump’s fault then?
Translation: “We know exactly what happened and it’s embarrassing as fuck. Move along citizen”
Also we’re going to use this as a(nother) chance to enrich ourselves and our buddies at the expense of everyone else, so we’d appreciate it if you turned a blind eye to that
Fuck you we DEFINITELY need an investigation as to why ALL flights in the United States were grounded
Guess what Limp Johnson? Fuck you, that’s what.
That’s the first clue that we need an investigation.
If he knew what he was doing, he would have at least said, “yeah, we should investigate what happened” and then quietly forget about it. But he swerved the wrong way and now we know we need to look deeper.
We needed an investigation the minute they grounded the planes.
This is the first clue that Club Members are involved.
Exactly what a ventriloquist doll would say with a hand up his ass.
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Hey, Mike.
Who’s been cutting their budget so aggressively they still have computers from the 80’s?
Between this and what’s-his-name demanding $50 billion I’m thinking some friends are looking to get paid before January.
Duffy I think. He wants money to fix the shit his son-in-law’s no bid AI company broke.
He wants to get a maximum payout for that company before the tap dries up in January. They’re all jackals.
Wait what
Everyone seems to always have a relative or close friend involved in something questionable in this administration. It’s almost as if… well, no, suggesting they’re in it to make profit off the taxpayer would be unfounded, right?
I saw a theory this was a test to see how fast they could ground everything when they initiate martial law. Part of the reason international flights were still okay based on a “case by case” basis. Sure no communication, but let the jumbo jets fly.
I’m sure there were better ways to do it so it didn’t get so much negative publicity.
Actually I know they could have.
But this regime is so goddamn incompetent that I would bet they did intend for something like that to get tested, but didn’t intend for it to get out of control like it did.
Not to dismiss the issue but only some frequencies were failing. Letting the flights already in the air while not letting anyone take off minimized the risk.
The international flights that were allowed were from north and east airports going to Europe that go into Canada’s airspace very quickly and west coast going to Asia and Hawaii that basically fly with no air traffic control comms
For four hours? This doesn’t hold up to even the slightest scrutiny.
Says you with no actual counter. Don’t put it past this administration. When a journalist asks 60+ air traffic controllers and they all say the transportation secretary is lying, you have to do better than, “Na uh, because I said so.”
K. Doesn’t make any sense cause I didn’t say that. I do think your theory is fucking stupid, though.
I saw a theory
Your theory
Oh, I see. You can’t read. My mistake, carry on
And you can’t debate, clearly. Like, just pathetic.
- This is not an official forum for debate.
- You wouldn’t know official debate procedure if it was staring you in the face.
- Your “counter” argument, if you could even stretch the definition of the term, was “Doesn’t stand up to any scrutiny.” While providing zero actual counter points.
I’ll give you a hint. 60 air traffic controllers said the transportation secretary is lying. The Trump administration has already teased not swearing in the new members of Congress. January 6th literally showed what the brown coats are capable of.
Those are all things that stand as evidence of what is POSSIBLE but not necessarily the actual reason. This does even cover ALL the things this administration has done akin to a dictatorship and the possibility of martial law. I also will not be explaining it all in a 10,000 word essay to a random moron on the internet who’s counter argument could be succinctly summarized as “Na uh.”
Fuck this asshole. January can’t come soon enough.
A clue!
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-LITERALLY Fiscally Responsible Republicans!
