Nationwide FAA Flight Ground Stop Linked to Telecommunications Outage, With No Signs of a Nefarious Attack, Officials Say
- The Federal Aviation Administration issued a nationwide ground stop halting all departing U.S. flights because of a telecommunications outage affecting Air Route Traffic Control Centers.
- Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said FAA technicians were investigating the outage and that officials would provide updates.
- Inbound international flights were to be handled on a case-by-case basis.
- Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said there was no reason to believe the outage was a threat to the United States at that time.
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FAA orders nationwide ground stop: please do not call it "AI"
The Trump Administration is so invested in their silly names for things that during a frightening nationwide all-ground stop at our airports, Markwayne Mullin is policing language instead of explaining what the heck is going on. Neither the FAA nor the DOT has reported on what broke. — Read the rest
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