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Posted on 11/13/2026 5:17:41 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The disruption is already impacting weekend travel, with hundreds of flights on Saturday canceled
The Federal Aviation Administration halted departing flights nationwide Friday afternoon, citing extraordinary circumstances and safety concerns after air-traffic control communications were disrupted.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wrote on X that there had been a communication issue affecting multiple air route traffic-control centers, which handle high-altitude flights covering large swaths of the country. “FAA technicians are investigating the issue,” he wrote.
Planes in the air are able to continue flying to their destinations, an FAA spokeswoman said. Inbound international flights will be managed on a case-by-case basis, the agency said.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told reporters at the White House on Friday that “there was no prior indication, or indication as of yet, that this was a nefarious attack against us. This is a telecommunications outage as of now.” When asked if it could be a cyberattack, Mullin said officials weren’t ruling anything out yet.
“There’s no reason for the public to be afraid or scared for your loved ones,” Mullin said.
The groundstop started Friday afternoon at 3:53 p.m. ET. More than 3,300 U.S. flights had been canceled and more than 10,200 had been delayed as of Friday at 6:40 p.m. ET, according to FlightAware. Airlines also started scrubbing weekend flights, with more than 300 canceled on Saturday.
Disruptions are likely to grow. With departures halted, airports fill up, leaving little room for more flights to land. Nearly 500 flights returned to the airport they took off from as of 5:50 pm ET Friday, and more than 100 diverted to another airport, according to Cirium, an aviation analytics firm.
That leaves planes and crew members out of place for their next flights, which could create cascading scheduling problems into the weekend.
Some international departures from the east...
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First thing I thought when hearing about the nationwide groudstop. A cyberattack or hacking going on? After all, incompetence can't be a factor, right? Some people interviewed at airports said the gov't delayed upgrades on infrastructure, having been warned about degraded telecommunications for years. Import the 3rd world, become the 3rd world. Not our brightest that came in.
So, they could talk to the planes that were coming in to land but not the ones that would be departing.
Duffy says outdated equipment and more money for upgrades needed. Complains about Congress not funding.
50 billion dollars needed.
Nice jacket, Sean...
Is this related to the Microsoft problem?
MKes one wonder if they’re anticipating more to come.
Ground stop lifted per CNN.
Is this related to the Microsoft problem?
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Entirely possible - the gov’t runs on windows. Idjits.
Saw a little blurb saying the FAA system has hooks in the “cloud”. Don’t know if true or not, wouldn’t surprise me.
Cloudstrike II?
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