US Reopens Airspace After Nationwide Flight Halt, Rules Out Cyberattack
Officials blamed old equipment for the outage and said nearly 6,000 flights were canceled before airspace reopened, according to FlightAware.
- On Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a nationwide ground stop across every U.S. airport due to a widespread air traffic control communication issue affecting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers.
- Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin dismissed speculation of a coordinated cyberattack or Microsoft link, while Duffy explained that switches and routers "got overloaded with data."
- This alert marked the second such stoppage in U.S. airspace since 9/11; FlightAware data shows nearly 6,000 flights were canceled, while Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport logged 628 delays and 22 cancellations.
- At 8:15 tonight Eastern Time, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced at a White House briefing that airspace "opened up," though officials warned clearing travel chaos would take time.
- Following the breakdown, Duffy and the White House asked Congress for US$30 billion to modernize the Air Traffic Control System, while insisting it remained safe for Americans to fly.
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For several hours, communications and radars operated only "intermittently" in several air traffic control centres, due to a computer failure.
Air traffic over the United States experienced an unprecedented total suspension of several hours on Friday night. More than 6,000 flights were cancelled. Traffic resumed this Saturday morning. Here's what happened.
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Air traffic was closed at all airports across the country for several hours on the night of Friday to Saturday. More than 6,000 flights were blocked. The reason? A breakdown.
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On Saturday, the United States announced the reopening of its airspace to air traffic, following the suspension of flights at all airports of the country for hours, following a malfunction in air traffic control systems, amid official assurances that there were no signs of an electronic attack.
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