00:00What a day, right?
00:01Just to make sure we understand, there is no indication, and
00:06we had no reason to believe as of right now that this was a threat to the United States.
00:13This was a telecommunication outage throughout FAA.
00:17Out of abundant caution, we have grounded all the flights.
00:22And all the flights are accounted for as incoming flights,
00:27either internationally or the flights that are currently still in the air.
00:30We'll be dealing with those case by case.
00:33As you can imagine, there will be a priority list as they start coming in.
00:40But as I will repeat myself, there was no prior indication.
00:44There was no indication as of yet that this was a nefarious attack against us.
00:52It's just a telecommunication outage as of right now.
00:54Terry Bowen, you're saying that there's no indication yet that this was a nefarious act.
01:02Does that mean that you just haven't seen the evidence and
01:04it's possible that this could be either a cyber attack or some kind of an AI intrusion?
01:10Well, we don't want to get ahead of ourselves anytime something like this happens.
01:14I mean, the last time I believe that we've had a national ground stoppage was 9-11.
01:20Of course, through DHS, we're getting a ton of calls saying, is this a terrorist attack?
01:25Is this a terrorist attack?
01:26Everybody's safe.
01:27There is no reason to be concerned about your loved ones if they're flying or anything like that.
01:33I just want to make sure everybody's at ease about that.
01:35As we investigate what caused this, you always got to assume
01:42that as many cyber attacks that take place, that you make that assumption.
01:47So, but as of right now, that's not known.
01:50So we're going to continue to work.
01:52The first thing we want to do is make sure we restore the communications.
01:55We get all the flights on the ground, and then we get back no more operations.
02:00But we're going to continue to work to find out what the root of the cause is.
02:04And so it's your assessment that Microsoft yesterday, the FAA today is a coincidence?
02:12I don't see any reason to connect those two at all.
02:17Those are separate issues.
02:18Yes, just to be clear, can you definitively rule out that this is not a cyber attack?
02:25And how long do you expect this outage to last?
02:27What is the cause of it?
02:28So we're working with Secretary Duffy on this.
02:30We're not ruling out anything at this point.
02:32The first thing is the safety of everybody that's flying.
02:35We are assured that everybody is safe.
02:39Everybody that's going to be in the air that's currently on a plane, loved ones, as I said,
02:44we're going to get you on the ground, and we're doing it in a safe manner.
02:47To say that we can rule out anything, that's not what we do at this point.
02:51The first thing we want to do is make sure everybody is safe and we restore operations.
02:55Yes?
02:56Can you talk about the specific system that is being affected right now?
03:00And we have seen some planes land at specific airports.
03:04Is that going to be the case that all airports, any flights in the air will be allowed to land?
03:07The flights that are currently in the air, we have a ground stoppage.
03:11We still got to get the flights out, right?
03:13And so we're going to be dealing with those case by case.
03:17I think you said specific, it's a telecommunication outage.
03:21I'm not going to get ahead of FAA.
03:23That's their lane to talk about.
03:25We were wanting to assure all the American people this isn't a safety to the American
03:31people or another 9-11.
03:33I think that's what a lot of people are trying to make the comparison to.
03:36And that's not the case.
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