Why US Grounded Every Plane for only 2nd Time Since 9/11; What Happens Next…
The outage lasted 4 hours and 21 minutes and led to more than 4,700 cancellations and about 10,000 delays, FlightRadar24 figures cited by Reuters showed.
- On Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a nationwide ground stop on all departing flights, halting all operations in less than 20 minutes after communications systems failed.
- The White House attributed the halt to "overloaded analogue equipment," while the FAA initially posted that a "temporary telecommunications outage" prompted the disruption after engineers pushed a routine update.
- Such nationwide ground stops are rare; the previous instance occurred on January 11, 2023, when a Notice to Air Missions system failure lasted about 90 minutes.
- Around 10,000 flights were delayed by the outage. While passengers can claim refunds for cancellations, airlines are not required to provide meals, hotels, or extra compensation for such "uncontrollable" events.
- Passengers should verify flight status on airline apps before traveling, as major carriers may cancel select flights in coming days to manage crew displacements and operational issues.
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After a five-hour interruption and the gradual re-establishment of operations, hundreds of flights were cancelled on November 14 and others were delayed in the United States. Authorities claimed that the incident was due to a failure in the communications of air traffic control centres and noted that some old systems contributed to the cancellations. Donald Trump’s administration ruled out that it was a cyber attack. Impacts damaged hundreds of …
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At least 4,000 flights within, to or from the United States have been cancelled this Saturday, according to the Flightaware site.
For more than four hours, no commercial flight was able to take off in the United States this Friday. Suspicions first fell on SMART, the FAA’s new artificial intelligence tool, and on the global fall of Microsoft 365. Donald Trump’s government targeted another culprit.
Suspension affected 1.5 million passengers; authorities blame obsolete equipment
A failure in air traffic control communications paralysed take-offs across the country for more than four hours, causing thousands of cancellations and delays that will continue over the weekend
On Friday, the U.S. aviation authorities banned any aircraft take-off from U.S. airports from 3:54 p.m. in New York until 8:15 p.m. "Operations are gradually returning to normal [Saturday] morning" despite some persistent delays, said the Minister of Transport.
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