The US dismisses the terrorist threat and insists that a telecommunications failure has caused the suspension of flights

The Secretary of Homeland Security of the United States, Markwayne Mullin, ruled out this Friday that the suspension of all flights in the territory is due to an alleged terrorist threat and has insisted on "telecommunications problems" although he has not specified the origin.

At a press conference, the secretary assured that he "will not allow" the incident to be compared with the attacks of September 11, 2001 and stressed that what happened "has nothing to do with it."

"I'm not going to allow it (the comparison). But people are making that comparison because there has been a total stop (of plane departures). Do we know what caused it? No, but I'm not going to make assumptions of that type," he stressed.

Likewise, Mullin confirmed to the media that they had informed US President Donald Trump of the situation and that the White House was working to resolve the incident, which was resolved hours later.

Asked if Artificial Intelligence systems had been the trigger for the telecommunications problems, the secretary responded that he "does not rule out anything" at the moment, and assured that "they are going to discover what has happened" and that "they will take appropriate actions to ensure that this does not happen again."

For its part, the Air Space Intelligence (ASI) company, in charge of deploying these technologies in June 2026, ruled out that the interruption of air traffic was due to a failure in its artificial intelligence systems.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the US Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, announced that month the award of a contract to ASI to implement two complementary tools aimed at optimizing the scheduling and management of flights throughout the North American Airspace System.

The first of these developments, the Flow Management Data and Services System (FMDS), acts as the "new backbone of the FAA Air Traffic Control System Command Center by balancing demand with operational capacity," the statement said. Added to this is the Strategic Airspace, Routes and Trajectories Management System (SMART), an improvement integrated into the FMDS designed to prevent congestion through the advance coordination of schedules and routes before takeoff.