FAA因通信故障实施罕见全美航班地面停止
FAA issues rare nationwide ground stop due to 'extraordinary circumstances'
Welcome to the NewsHour. Air travel across the country is at a standstill tonight after the federal aviation administration issued a rare nationwide ground stop, citing extraordinary circumstances and reasons of safety. Runways across the country were emptied tonight, and hundreds of flights have been impacted so far. A short time ago, Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen told reporters he did not believe this was tied to a specific attack.
欢迎收看《新闻一小时》。今晚，美国全国航空运输陷入停滞。联邦航空管理局以“特殊情况和安全原因”为由，罕见地发布了全国性的地面停飞令。全国各地跑道清空，数百架航班受到影响。不久之前，国土安全部长马克·韦恩·穆伦向记者表示，他不认为此次事件与特定袭击有关。
I want to make sure we say this again: There's no reason for the public to be afraid or scared for your loved ones. This isn't another 9/11. I just can't repeat that enough. People are making that assumption because that's the last time we had a nationwide ground stoppage. This is a telecommunication outage. This is much different. It's just the third time in recent decades that there's been a nationwide grounding. The last time was in January of 2023, after the failure of a pilot communication system.
我想再次强调：公众无需感到恐惧或担忧家人的安危。这不是另一次9/11。我必须反复重申这一点。人们之所以产生这种假设，是因为上一次发生全国性地面停飞时的情景。但这次是电信中断，情况大不相同。这是近几十年来第三次发生全国性停飞。上一次发生在2023年1月，原因是飞行员通信系统故障。
Information is still very limited, but let's try to answer what we can. Are aviation correspondent Miles O'Brien is here for just that. Miles, welcome back, and thanks for joining us. These kinds of nationwide ground stops are extremely rare. I know you have been talking to your contacts. Do we know what's behind this moment? Well, there's a lot of speculation right now, Amna. We should characterize that, that no one really knows for sure, or at least is not saying so.
目前信息仍然非常有限，但我们尽量回答大家关心的问题。航空特派记者迈尔斯·奥布莱恩（Miles O'Brien）就在现场。迈尔斯，欢迎回来，感谢你的参与。这类全国性地面停飞极其罕见。我知道你一直在与相关人员沟通。我们是否知道此次事件背后的原因？嗯，目前有很多猜测，阿娜。我们应该明确的是，没有人真正确切知道原因，或者至少没有人公开说明。
But what you have is a system-wide problem, in a system that is built on redundancy. And so you have to wonder what the single point failures could be and why those exist. There are 22 regional en route centers that manage aircraft at cruise altitude, passing across the country. They are connected to each other by simple landlines, kind of old-fashioned landlines. And there's some speculation that that system of connecting those en route centers has failed.
然而，这是一个建立在冗余设计之上的系统性问题。因此，人们不禁要问：单点故障可能出在哪里？为什么会出现这些故障？全美有22个区域航路中心负责管理巡航高度上的飞机，它们横跨全国。这些中心通过简单的有线电话相互连接，可以说是比较老式的有线电话。目前有猜测认为，连接这些航路中心的系统出现了故障。
Now, what caused that? Could that have been some sort of hacking event, potentially? Or could it have something to do with the modernization of the system, which we all know relies on floppy disks and paper strips? And spinning radars, which go back to the 1940s. So what the FAA is trying to do is attach a rocket booster to a horse and buggy, and that's where you start realizing the vulnerabilities in a system that should have layer upon layer of redundancy, Amna.
那么，是什么导致了这一情况？会不会是某种黑客攻击事件？还是说这与该系统的现代化改造有关？众所周知，该系统仍依赖软盘和纸带，以及源自20世纪40年代的旋转雷达。因此，联邦航空管理局正在做的事情无异于给马车装上火箭助推器。正是在这种情况下，人们开始意识到一个本应层层冗余的系统所存在的脆弱性，阿娜。
I mean, Miles, just to give people a sense of the scope of this ground stop, take a look at this flight tracker graphic. This is showing all the flights across the U.S. and in the region there, halted. Those are yellow. Those are not moving. So, Miles, tell us about this communications outage, as the Secretary alluded to there. Obviously, some folks are asking, could this have something to do with the massive Microsoft outage that we have been talking about?
我的意思是，迈尔斯，为了让人们对这次地面停航的范围有个概念，请看这张航班追踪图。图中显示全美及该地区的航班都已暂停。那些是黄色的，它们没有移动。所以，迈尔斯，请跟我们谈谈这次通信中断的情况，正如国务卿刚才提到的那样。显然，有些人问，这是否与我们一直在讨论的微软大规模故障有关？
And does it potentially give way to other vulnerabilities here? Well, that's just it. It shouldn't be that vulnerable. And if it is possible to take down one layer,
这是否可能引发其他漏洞呢？嗯，问题就在这里。它本不该如此脆弱。如果有可能击落一层，
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