Mike Pompeo says cause of FAA debacle should be ‘pretty apparent’ by now
Julia Johnson
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the Wednesday FAA disruption should have an explanation by now.
Pompeo explained in an interview Wednesday that in his experience in national security, “when there were attacks from abroad, there was an already tell-tale sign, almost always some footprint.”
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There was usually “something to suggest that this wasn’t just somebody flipped a switch that shouldn’t have been flipped or a piece of code that was written improperly,” he added.
And it was discovered almost always “in very short order.”
“Now we are 12, 14, 16 hours on — it [should be] pretty apparent [if] there was an external system that drove the failure or something from inside, and they should, I would think, have the answer to that,” he said.
Early Wednesday morning, the FAA grounded all flights, citing a system outage. Air traffic operations were later resumed after systems were rebooted. The White House insists that there is “no evidence” of a cyberattack as a precursor to the outage.
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A former FAA official called the nationwide disruption “unheard of,” noting that it’s the first such incident since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The FAA has said it is looking into the cause.