"Virtually every single institution in America has gone from copper to fiber, from analog to digital," Duffy said. "Just maybe the FAA is the last one to be doing this work because the investments haven't been made, but this is not complicated."

So your saying your administration couldn't handle something that the vast majority of experts have dealt with already? They didn't have mitigation in place for the upgrades?

L3Harris, a long time contractor for the Federal Aviation Administration, was doing routine maintenance in at least one of FAA's remote locations changing copper wire to fiber, he said. Duffy said the routers in these facilities were manufactured in 2001. These updates have been happening in American institutions for decades, Duffy said.

So is it an upgrade that failed, or routine maintenance?

But when pressed by reporters on exactly why those systems would become overwhelmed on an otherwise normal travel day, Duffy did not have a ready answer.

This really doesn't pass the sniff test, this administration cannot be trusted to tell the truth.