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FAA ground stop disrupts college football
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Some college football games were delayed a few hours on Saturday or postponed to Sunday. And in Oklahoma at least, there will be perks for fans to make up for…
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The Daily Wire
FAA Orders Nationwide Ground Stop At All U.S. AirportsThe Federal Aviation Administration ordered a nationwide ground stop Friday, halting departures at all U.S. airports due to “extraordinary circumstances” and…
Roll Call
Trump administration ups ante on aviation funds after ground stopTop administration officials doubled down on calls for Congress to supply additional funds for an ongoing air traffic modernization effort after they said old…
NBC News
Thousands of flights canceled or delayed Saturday after FAA’s nationwide ground stopThousands of flights were canceled or delayed Saturday morning as airlines struggled to recover from a nationwide ground stop that halted U.S. departures for…
NewsNation
Duffy blames contractor work for FAA ground stopFAA Administrator Bryan Bedford says flights should be back to normal by Sunday.
PBS NewsHour
FAA grounds all flights at U.S. airports due to air traffic control communications problemsThe nation's top homeland security official attributed the problem to a telecommunications outage and said there was no indication yet of a nefarious act.
The Daily Caller
FAA Issues Nationwide Ground Stop, Halting All US Flight DeparturesWIRED
FAA Grounds All US Flights Until Further NoticeThe government cited a nationwide communications failure among air traffic control systems as the reason for the sudden grounding on Friday.
TechCrunch
US government grounds all flights across the United States ‘due to extraordinary circumstances’A spokesperson for the FAA told TechCrunch that it issued the ground stop "following communication issues impacting multiple Air Route Traffic Control…