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FAA Pauses Flights at Love Field, DFW Airport over Equipment Failure
Telecommunications outage at Dallas TRACON causes multi-hour flight delays and ground stops at two major North Texas airports, affecting numerous travelers today.
- The FAA halted all inbound and outbound flights at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field on Friday afternoon due to a telecommunications equipment outage at Dallas TRACON.
- The outage originated from a local telephone company equipment failure, prompting the FAA to impose ground stops and redirect some traffic to other airports as they investigate the cause.
- By 2 p.m., over 273 flights at DFW and 69 at Love Field were delayed, with some delays exceeding seven hours and multiple cancellations reported, including 66 at DFW.
- A controller communicated that no flights would be allowed to depart until a new system was established, highlighting the total loss of radar and communications that severely affected both airports during the outage.
- The FAA is collaborating with the phone service provider to resolve system issues and urges passengers to verify flight status updates, cautioning that interruptions may persist until at least 5 p.m. or longer.
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