Flights are gradually resuming after the ground stop was lifted Wednesday morning, and some on Twitter are placing the blame for the snafu on Buttigieg.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg came under fire after an outage in the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Notice to Air Missions system grounded flights in the United States on Wednesday morning
Early Wednesday morning, the FAA issued a ground stop of all U.S. flights after an outage caused the NOTAM system to fail. The system provides critical flight safety operational information. The massive failure comes only weeks after another air travel snafu when Southwest Airlines canceled thousands of flights over Christmas weekend.
Just before 9 a.m. Wednesday, Buttigieg tweeted that the system had been fully restored.
