What caused the FAA outage? Why experts think old tech may play a role | JUST THE FAQs

Here's what we know about the FAA system outage that caused more than 10,000 flights in the U.S. to be delayed or canceled. RELATED: Buttigieg addresses FAA flight delays, promises to get to the answers https://bit.ly/3w05ksM The FAA has not yet identified a specific cause of the failure, but experts told USA TODAY that the U.S. air traffic control system often relies on outdated technology to keep things moving, and a computer glitch of some kind probably was responsible. More than 10,000 flights were delayed or canceled over the course of the day Wednesday according to the tracking site FlightAware. Just after 9 a.m. Thursday, about 750 flights had been delayed and just 86 were canceled nationwide. » Subscribe to USA TODAY: http://bit.ly/1xa3XAh » Watch more on this and other topics from USA TODAY: https://bit.ly/3HJCErF » USA TODAY delivers current local and national news, sports, entertainment, finance, technology, and more through award-winning journalism, photos, videos and VR. #Flight #Travel #Airlines