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Rare nationwide ground stop halts US air traffic – video
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The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a rare nationwide ground stop on Friday, halting all departures and landings across US airports for just over four hours. The stop marked the longest nationwide shutdown, and only the second nationwide ground stop of all depar
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a rare nationwide ground stop on Friday, halting all departures and landings across US airports for just over four hours. The stop marked the longest nationwide shutdown, and only the second nationwide ground stop of all departures, since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The US homeland security secretary, Markwayne Mullin, and the US transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, appeared to suggest that the cause of the outage was older technology becoming overwhelmed with data after new technology was introduced.
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