Glitches and complications happen all the time’: Pete Buttigieg calls nationwide flight shutdown a ‘data point’ we can learn from as he faces widespread criticism for ANOTHER transport crisis after the Southwest debacle and as Republicans demand answers

(Source: The Daily Mail)

• Thousands of flights across the country were delayed on Wednesday morning
• Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said it was done ‘out of an abundance of caution’ after a key safety system failed 
• A cyberattack is likely not behind the outage, the White House has said 

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg called Wednesday morning’s nationwide flight outage a ‘data point’ to learn from as Republicans demand answers about back-to-back airline crises.

He also told MSNBC that flights were grounded or delayed ‘out of an abundance of caution’ while a glitch in a key Federal Aviation Administration safety feature was resolved.

The Biden official also said he did not believe the origin of the outage was ‘nefarious.’ 

‘This gives us a really important data point at a really important moment to understand what we’re going to need moving forward,’ Buttigieg told reporters today.