FAA Lifts Nationwide Ground Stop After Comms System Crash; Flight Disruptions Could Stretch Into Tomorrow
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FAA Lifts Nationwide Ground Stop After Comms System Crash; Flight Disruptions Could Stretch Into Tomorrow The latest: FAA Lifts Nationwide Ground Stop FAA halts all departures…
At 8:19 p.m. EST, the FAA canceled a nationwide ground stop that began around 4:00 p.m. EST and stranded tens of thousands of passengers. This is the second such shutdown since the September 11, 2001, terror attacks
The shutdown snarled airports nationwide, with airlines canceling more than 1,000 flights and delaying more than 10,000, according to flight-tracking website FlightAware.
The Department of Homeland Security released a statement saying the disruption was not caused by a cyberattack. In fact, the outage appears to be related to a telecommunications network overseen by L3Harris Technologies
There is no official timeline for when normal flight operations will resume after the ground stop, but the widespread disruption suggests recovery could take hours, potentially into Saturday morning.
However, JetBlue provided some clarity, warning passengers that disruptions will last into tomorrow morning.
More than 1,100 U.S. flights had been canceled and nearly 10,000 had been delayed as of Friday at 5:40 p.m. ET, according to FlightAware. As of around 4 p.m., there were still roughly 11,000 flights scheduled to depart from U.S. airports Friday, according to aviation analytics company Cirium.
Some international departures from the east and west coasts were being allowed to take off Friday evening, according to industry officials.
Polymarket predictions suggest the ground stop will be lifted around 2240ET. But after that, who knows how long until any kind of normal is resumed.
The outage appears to be related to a telecommunications network overseen by L3Harris Technologies, according to people briefed on the matter.
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