美国联邦航空管理局官员和交通部长肖恩·达菲周六表示，调查仍在进行中，试图找出该国25多年来最大规模航班停飞事件的原因。
US Federal Aviation Administration officials and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Saturday said that investigations are ongoing in an attempt to find the cause of the largest mass grounding of flights in the country in over 25 years.
滞留乘客争相寻找酒店房间或能将他们送往目的地的巴士和火车，另一些乘客则在全国各地的机场等待，这是自2023年1月以来首次全国性停飞，也是自2001年9月11日恐怖袭击以来规模最大的一次。
As stranded passengers scrambled to find hotel rooms or buses and trains that could take them to their destinations, others hunkered down in the nation's airports in the first such nationwide grounding since January 2023 and the largest since the September 11, 2001, terror attacks.
国际航空公司也被迫取消飞往美国的航班，巨大的积压导致，其中包括，数十场大学和职业体育赛事的重新安排——这些赛事是许多美国人周末的常态。
International carriers were also forced to cancel flights to the US, and the massive backlog prompted, among other things, the rescheduling of dozens of college and professional sporting events — a staple of many Americans' weekends.
联邦航空管理局局长布莱恩·贝德福德表示，周五和周六共有16000架次航班延误，他补充说，希望航班时刻表周日某个时间能恢复正常，并表示“最糟糕的阶段已经过去”。
FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said that a total of 16,000 flights had been delayed on Friday and Saturday, adding that he hoped flight schedules would be back to normal sometime Sunday, saying the "worst is behind us."
交通部长肖恩·达菲在周五和周六的新闻发布会上回应了这一情况，达菲曾是一名真人秀电视人物，他说没有发现不法行为的证据，随后将矛头指向众多可能的责任方，先是上一届政府，然后是国会，最终锁定可能的“承包商失职”。达菲说，问题可能出在“老牌承包商”L3Harris的工人用新光纤电缆更换老旧铜线时安装的故障路由器，或者他们在更新线路时不知何故导致了系统过载。
Addressing the situation in press conferences on Friday and Saturday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, a former reality TV personality, said no evidence of malfeasance had been found, before pointing his finger at numerous possible culprits, starting with the previous administration, then Congress and eventually settling on possible "contractor incompetence." Duffy said the issue may have been a faulty router installed when workers from "legacy contractor" L3Harris replaced aged copper wire with new fiberoptic cable or that they had somehow caused a system overload while updating the wires.
周六，在一场本身就饱受技术故障困扰的新闻发布会上，达菲表示：“我们正在努力确定是否存在无能的情况，也就是说，是用户操作错误，还是L3Harris的安装人员操作错误，又或者是他们安装了有故障的路由器？我们尚未确定故障原因。”达菲补充道，无论哪种情况，“我们的承包商没有把握住关键时刻。”达菲还被问及，为何要在周五下午航班最繁忙的时候进行如此复杂的更新，而不是在周六晚上等远少飞机在空中的时段进行。
On Saturday, during a press conference that was itself plagued with technical problems, Duffy said, "We're working to determine whether we had incompetence, meaning, was it user error or installer error from L3Harris, or did they install a faulty router? We haven't determined what the fault was," Duffy said, adding that either way, "Our contractor didn't meet the moment." Duffy was also asked why such complicated updates would be undertaken on a Friday afternoon when air travel is at its busiest rather than on a Saturday night, for instance, when far-fewer planes are in the air.
他回答说，今后将重新评估此类更新的安排。周五，达菲说：“我们没想到会发生这种停飞。但确实发生了。”
He replied by saying the scheduling of such updates will be reevaluated moving forward. On Friday Duffy said, "We didn't think we would have this kind of outage. We did."
自决定更新目前使用的老旧基础设施以来，国会已批准125亿美元（约合113亿欧元）资金用于推动更换工作。特朗普政府曾寻求再追加300亿美元以完成整个工程，但达菲周五却提出了500亿美元的需求，并表示：“这是紧急情况。”除了乘客遭受的痛苦和沮丧，停飞还涉及巨大的经济因素。
Since the decision was made to update the very old infrastructure currently in use, Congress has approved $12.5 billion (€11.3 billion) to fund the changeover. The Trump administration had been seeking a further $30 billion to complete the job but Duffy on Friday called $50 billion instead, saying, "This is an emergency." Despite the pain and frustration endured by customers, there is also a massive financial component to the groundings.
由于停飞是由联邦航空管理局（FAA）下令的，航空公司无需依法对因航班取消而受影响的乘客进行赔偿。
Since the groundings were ordered by the FAA, airlines are not legally responsible for compensating passengers whose flights were cancelled.
周六，贝德福德局长表示，联邦航空管理局正在“与航空利益相关方合作”妥善解决问题，并称：“每个人要么会被重新安排乘坐航班，要么会获得全额退款。”投资者已开始核算航空公司可能面临的损失——这将加剧因特朗普政府在伊朗的战争及随后霍尔木兹海峡关闭导致的燃油价格飙升带来的冲击——周五晚些时候，美国航空、达美航空和联合航空的股价下跌了1%至2%。捷蓝航空以及承包商L3Harris的股价下跌了3%。
On Saturday, Administrator Bedford said the FAA is "working with aviation stakeholders" to make things right, saying, "everyone will either be reaccommodated (sic) on a flight or they'll get a full refund." Investors are already beginning to calculate potential losses to airlines — which will compound the sting of sky-high fuel prices brought on by the Trump administration's war in Iran and the subsequent closure of the Strait of Hormuz — with shares of American, Delta and United Airlines falling between 1% and 2% late Friday. Shares in JetBlue as well as contractor L3Harris were down 3%.