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Ireland'Faulty router' or installation error? News24 relays Duffy's uncertainty
The bulletin pairs the unresolved cause of the US flight shutdown with a warning that clearing the delays could take days.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 327,508 views a day, 30 times a normal first day on this channel (10,850).
US flight shutdown blamed on ‘faulty router’ as thousands face flight disruptions
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News24's report follows travellers facing delays after the nationwide US ground stop, then turns to the question behind the disruption: did equipment fail, or was it installed incorrectly?
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says routine work replacing copper wiring with fibre triggered the problem. But his explanation leaves two possibilities open: human error during installation or a faulty router. Despite the video's headline, the router is not presented in the briefing as a settled finding.
The broadcaster reports that the FAA expects delays to take days to resolve and warns that problems could recur until systems are fully updated. The distinction matters for passengers: ending a ground stop does not instantly clear the journeys backed up behind it.
The upload reached roughly 170,000 views in eight hours, already far beyond News24's usual first-day audience for a Short.
It is also a broader bulletin than its aviation title suggests. The closing sections move to Mark Carney's account of progress, but no agreement, in US-Canada trade talks, followed by a pending US decision on tariffs affecting Australian lamb exports.
The US secretary of transportation and a Republican. He previously represented Wisconsin’s seventh congressional district in Congress.
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- Channel
- News24
- Subscribers
- 6,270,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 16,455,985
- Channel views, pace per day
- 783,503 (on a normal day: 3,191,346)
- Video published
- November 14, 2026
- Video views so far
- 168,135 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 327,508
The numbers
The flight bulletin has already drawn substantially more views than a usual News24 Short receives in its full first day.
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The bulletin closes with a report on a pending US decision about tariffs on Australian lamb imports.