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BREAKING NEWS Chaos at America's busiest airport as ALL flights are grounded due to 'equipment failure'
Daily Mail UK ^ | May 11, 2025 | Rachel Bowman

Posted on 05/11/2025 10:09:35 AM PDT by Morgana

A ground stop was ordered at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson Airport on Sunday due to an equipment outage.

The Federal Aviation Administration issued the ground stop at 10:40 a.m. ET on Mother's Day.

'Departures to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International are grounded due to equipment outage,' the agency said.

The ground stop was issued for flights scheduled to leave from East Coast area airports bound for Atlanta, reported Atlanta News First.

Arrivals were slowed down due to 'a runway equipment issue,' and technicians worked to fix the issue.

The ground stop was lifted shortly before 12:30 p.m., and departures continued to be delayed by 20 minutes.

The FAA's Air Traffic Control System Command Center implemented a traffic management program at the travel hub.

'There is a Traffic Management Program in effect for traffic arriving Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport,' said the FAA.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: airtrafficcontrol; atc; atlanta; aviation; faa; flying; travel
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If anyone was expecting relatives to return from Mother's day well they won't be.
1 posted on 05/11/2025 10:09:35 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Deliberate sabotage to make Trump look bad?


2 posted on 05/11/2025 10:11:05 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Its old equipment, it was going to break down eventually, better to be safe than sorry


3 posted on 05/11/2025 10:14:10 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: dfwgator

My liberal Obama loving Biden accepting relative asked me why hasn’t doge fixed this.


4 posted on 05/11/2025 10:14:18 AM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: dfwgator

Wouldn’t this be Pete butt-plug’s fault?


5 posted on 05/11/2025 10:14:53 AM PDT by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul 🇺🇸 🇷🇺 )
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To: Morgana

Wow that’s a cluster mess


6 posted on 05/11/2025 10:16:05 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (“I don’t really care, Margaret.”)
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To: Morgana

I’m sure it even goes back further, but you know how these people operate.


7 posted on 05/11/2025 10:16:23 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator
Nope. China is practicing taking down vital services and with ALL THE CHINESE SABOTEURS BIDEN BROUGHT INTO OUR COUNTRY, who would expect anything LESS?

"equipment failure" my arse.

8 posted on 05/11/2025 10:19:08 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

With the Democrats’ tacit approval. Anything to get Trump.


9 posted on 05/11/2025 10:19:37 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Morgana

Aw, man, whatever happened to “Kick the tire, light the fire, brief on guard, and first one in the air gets the lead”?


10 posted on 05/11/2025 10:20:30 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Morgana

$36 trillion down the crapper and Newark International never saw a cent of it to upgrade their equipment. Who’s fault is that?


11 posted on 05/11/2025 10:20:50 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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Yep. Duffy is asking for $12 billion for airport upgrades and for ATCs. I would give him $25 billion. Small price to pay to insure safe & reliable air travel. I mean, $25 billion is nothing to the Feds. Nothing. And for that, they can modernize every airport and put a dent in the ATC shortage.

Do it. Congress is useless as tits on a boar so I don’t expect them to do anything.


12 posted on 05/11/2025 10:23:37 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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To: Morgana
Next news headline out of Atlanta: Huge Brawl Breaks Out in Atlanta Airport Terminal Women's Bathroom Over Last Roll of Toilet Paper.
13 posted on 05/11/2025 10:24:35 AM PDT by know.your.why
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To: Morgana

It is, that’s right.


14 posted on 05/11/2025 10:24:35 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: dfwgator

Once is questionable, twice in a week is sabatoge.


15 posted on 05/11/2025 10:26:33 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: stanne

And to think the filth Biden and the filthy democrats squanderd a trillion plus on grift with the wretched “Inflation Reducion Act” instead of on desperately needed infrastructure.


16 posted on 05/11/2025 10:26:35 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: dfwgator

“””Deliberate sabotage to make Trump look bad?”””


I was about to write the same thing.

Trump needs to do a Reagan and fire the whole lot of the FAA.


17 posted on 05/11/2025 10:31:56 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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“ And to think the filth Biden and the filthy democrats squanderd a trillion plus on grift with the wretched “Inflation Reducion Act” instead of on desperately needed infrastructure”

His supporters are not only not apologetic for it, they want to harass Trump for it

They want to continue hating Trump

Can’t fix stupid. Cannot fix illogical

Cannot fix hatred.


18 posted on 05/11/2025 10:32:19 AM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: Morgana

I would LOVE to see some journalist/investigator do an actual “inventory” of what Butt-Plug actually DID for four years....besides roll his eyes at the intractability of all problems in his realm of “expertise”, because, after all, they’re all caused by racism, and “we have to fix that first” that is literally their “way of looking at things”.....they don’t acknowledge that problems need PRACTICAL solutions....


19 posted on 05/11/2025 10:32:28 AM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: Morgana

Hmmm, closely timed failures.
Couldn’t have been related, could they?
Nope, must have been a coincidence.
Or...perhaps Trump’s fault.
But most certainly not the fault of the most inept pair of presidents - folks who’d have failed even the most elementary STEM course - the infamous Dorkbama and Pedo Joe.


20 posted on 05/11/2025 10:32:32 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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