The FAA has disabled the router function suspected of causing the nationwide US ground stop on roughly 60 routers of the same type in use across its network, Yahoo News reports.
According to Yahoo News, the step was described at the Saturday 14 November briefing by an FAA official identified only as Guy. His role has not been given. The FAA is carrying out further testing with contractor L3Harris Technologies, Yahoo News reports.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said officials do not yet know whether the router was defective or whether L3Harris installed or configured it incorrectly. He said the findings will be shared, according to Yahoo News.
That fits what Duffy said earlier at the same briefing, when he blamed the fault on "either through contractor error or a faulty piece of equipment". The figure of about 60 routers has so far been reported only by Yahoo News and has not been independently checked.