'Duffy Lied': Air Traffic Controllers Refute Trump Transportation Secretary's Ground Stop Explanation | Common Dreams
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"I’ve spoken with 60 air traffic controllers tonight about what Sean Duffy said at the White House today," said one journalist. "None of them are buying what he said."

“I’ve spoken with 60 air traffic controllers tonight about what Sean Duffy said at the White House today,” said one journalist. “None of them are buying what he said.”

Air traffic controllers are rejecting US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s explanation for Friday’s nationwide flight ground stop, raising questions about the Trump administration’s account of a communications failure that disrupted air travel across the United States, affecting an estimated 1.5 million travelers.

Washington Examiner homeland security reporter Anna Giaritelli told CNN’s Laura Coates during a Friday night interview that she’d spoken with 60 air traffic controllers about the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ground stop, which was just the third to ever occur.

“None of them are buying what he said,” Giaritelli said. “The controllers were saying, ‘We don’t buy that this is actually what’s happening, the reason that Sean Duffy is saying this has happened.’”

  • 2ndDegreeOWO@lemmy.world
    14·
    4 hours ago

    This is a kind of whisper-down-the-lane problem, except you have to add that at each step as the details are communicated up the chain, each person summarizes them based on their understanding and their expectation about what their direct supervisor can understand. And many of the people in that chain really have less than a basic understanding of what the system does, to say nothing of how it does it.

    Now, in addition to that, insert an intermediary step between each one, where a hallucination-prone AI summarizes what the previous person said.