In the United States are not planning layoffs after a major failure in air traffic

Violation of air traffic in the United States occurred solely due to faulty equipment, layoffs due to interruptions will not follow. It's reported by sb.by.

According to TASS, US Secretary of Homeland Security Marquane Mullin said: I don’t think anyone will be fired because of this. The problem was with the equipment. Problems appear to have arisen in the process of trying to adapt the old system to new technologies.”.

Mullin did not rule out the possibility that the failure was caused by a cyber attack, but said he was almost completely confident in the version with technical problems. “I do not believe in coincidences until proven, and I am now being persuaded to do so. Is there a possibility of this (cyber attacks)? - Editor's note? Maybe. I would be happy to point to the attacker, because then we would know who to look for and punish. However, the facts show that this is not the case, with a probability of 98 percent (air traffic violation). It was caused by the fact that we are trying to use the system of 50 years ago in the modern world.

On November 13, the Federal Aviation Administration banned all flights in the country for more than four hours due to a communication failure at air traffic control centers. It was the longest nationwide shutdown in 25 years, with more than 10,000 flights cancelled on Friday and Saturday. The head of the US Department of transport Sean Duffy explained the failure of “incredibly old” air traffic control system, routers which could not cope with the congestion. In the United States called the cause of a large-scale violation of air traffic