FAA lifts nationwide ground stop after communications outage

FAA lifts nationwide ground stop after communications outage

The Federal Aviation Administration lifted a rare nationwide ground stop Friday after a telecommunications outage disrupted communications between air traffic controllers and pilots at all regional Air Route Traffic Control Centers. More than three thousand five hundred flights were canceled or delayed, the first nationwide grounding since January two thousand twenty-three, and airlines warned disruptions could continue into the weekend.

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