FAA Orders Nationwide Ground Stop Over Communications Outage
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The Federal Aviation Administration issued a nationwide ground stop at all US airports on Friday, halting departing flights from 3:54 p.m. EST until a scheduled 11 p.m. EST. Aircraft already in the air may land, but flights on the ground cannot take off, and inbound international flights are being handled case by case. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy attributed the halt to a communications issue affecting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers. The stop came the same day the agency's cloud-based, AI-supported air traffic platform SMART was scheduled to go live; the FAA cited "extraordinary circumstances" and "reasons of safety" for the order.
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The FAA issued a nationwide ground stop at all US airports on Friday afternoon, halting departing flights until 11 p.m. EST while inbound international flights are handled case-by-case. The halt came as the agency's cloud-based, AI-supported air traffic platform SMART was scheduled to go live that day, and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy attributed it to a communication issue affecting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers.
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