Video taking off 185x its usual first day

Duffy describes router flooding air traffic system with connection requests

The New York Post's briefing clip passes a million views as investigators examine installation error or faulty equipment behind the nationwide ground stop.

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New York Post Story of November 15, 2026Trari Newsroom

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,911,399 views a day, 185 times a normal first day on this channel (10,345).

Sean Duffy Reveals Blame for Nationwide Ground Stop — Doesn’t Rule Out Cyber Attack

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Routine work to replace copper telecommunications lines with fiber became the focus of questions about America's flight shutdown. In a briefing carried by the New York Post, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy describes a router malfunction during the upgrade, followed by a flood of connection attempts that disrupted aircraft communications and radar feeds.

What triggered the malfunction was still under investigation. "Was it user error or installer error from L3Harris, or did they install a faulty router?" Duffy asks in the clip, naming the contractor carrying out the work at a remote FAA facility.

That distinction matters: he describes how the disruption spread, but does not establish which of those possible causes started it. He says officials halted departures for safety while the problem was isolated and resolved.

The clip reached roughly 1.2 million views in ten hours, far beyond the Post's usual first-day audience for a Short. Its title emphasizes that a cyberattack had not been ruled out; the on-screen text also says investigators did not believe an attack caused the incident. An open possibility is not a finding.

The Post's accompanying coverage includes the administration's request for air traffic control modernization funding and a passenger's recording aboard a Delta flight from Detroit to Fort Lauderdale. In that recording, the captain explains the crucial difference for those already airborne: departing flights had been stopped, but their plane was still on track to land.

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