Lawmakers Call for Investigation Into Recent FAA System Outage

Lawmakers Call for Investigation Into Recent FAA System Outage
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Chief Steve Dickson pilots a Boeing 737 MAX aircraft on return from an evaluation flight at Boeing Field in Seattle on Sept. 30, 2020. Mike Siegel/File Photo/Pool via Reuters
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Lawmakers from both parties are calling for an investigation into the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) recent computer system failure that caused the first nationwide ground stop of U.S. flights since the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Officials from President Joe Biden and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to Republicans in the House and Senate have asserted that there must be an investigation to find out what occurred to prevent it from happening again.