U.S. authorities estimated the possibility of a connection between the failure of Microsoft and problems at airports

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Marquane Mullin said U.S. authorities did not see a causal link between a technical failure in Microsoft and the problems that led to a mass shutdown of departures from the country's airports.

In an interview with the press, the official stressed that he found no reason to combine the two incidents, describing them as completely independent of each other problems.

According to the monitoring resource Flightradar24, about 3.1 thousand aircraft bound for airports in the United States are still forced to stay in the air. This situation has developed against the background of reports of technical problems in the communication systems of dispatching services and a nationwide ban on takeoffs.

An official message posted by the service on social network X indicates that there are currently about 3,100 aircraft flying to destinations in the United States, while departures throughout the country are temporarily frozen.

Earlier, the press service of the American aviation regulator FAA announced the introduction of a nationwide moratorium on departures from all US airports. This decision was based on security considerations in connection with emergency circumstances, it was noted that the reception of international flights will be carried out individually. Later, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy explained that the reason for the ban on takeoffs was a large-scale failure of communication systems that hit all regional air traffic control centers.

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