The engineer who brought America to its knees – the FAA flight grounding debacle that stranded tens of thousands for hours and paralyzed the nation was caused by ONE employee who replaced the wrong file

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The grounding of all flights and Federal Aviation Administration systems failure that occurred Wednesday morning across the United States was caused by a mistake made by an engineer, Your Content has learned.

More than 11,300 flights were delayed or canceled Wednesday morning after an FAA system meltdown that prompted a grounding order.

Close to 600 flights were delayed by midday Thursday as the system experienced a hangover from Wednesday’s chaos.

The corrupted file that caused the disastrous glitch was inserted by an engineer who didn’t realize his mistake,‘according to FLIPBOARD.

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