Globo presenter stays on plane during strike in the USA: 'We have no forecast'

TV Globo presenter and journalist, Kenya Sade, is one of the Brazilians trapped inside a plane during the strike at airports in the United States this Friday (13).

"We'll have to wait," said the presenter.

Furthermore, the journalist said that she has no estimated time to reach her destination.

"They are now giving the message. I am inside an American Airlines plane. I was in Las Vegas, I just landed here in Dallas. And they said that there is no forecast. And that the aircraft will return to the gate", he said.

The standstill

The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ordered this Friday (13) the suspension of all takeoffs in the country after a communication failure that affected air traffic control centers.

United States Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin said the government has no evidence that the outage was caused by an attack. According to him, the problem is related to a temporary failure in telecommunications services.

Kenya Sade, Globo presenter, is one of those arrested at US airports. — Photo: Reproduction/Globonews

TV Globo learned from a source who works in a control tower at a New York airport that the problem is related to a crossing of radio frequencies.

As a result, more than one aircraft can transmit messages at the same time on the same frequency, which makes communication with controllers difficult.

In practice, professionals cannot clearly identify which plane is talking to the tower.

According to data from the monitoring website FlightAware, almost 7,000 flights in the United States were delayed or canceled. The FAA has not yet given an estimate of when the national suspension of takeoffs will end.

"If the suspension of takeoffs continues into the evening, it will likely be necessary to wait until the weekend to resolve the impacts on airline operations," said Robert Mann, aviation analyst and director of consultancy R.W. Mann & Co, to Reuters.

The FAA stated that all flights that are in the air have already been identified. International flight arrivals are being assessed on a case-by-case basis.