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Posted on 11/14/2026 1:45:47 PM PST by Mariner
Airlines canceled thousands more flights Saturday as they recovered from Friday's nationwide ground stop, but the FAA said schedules should be back to normal by the end of Sunday.
More than 5,000 U.S. flights had been canceled Saturday as of 2:48 p.m. ET, according to FlightAware, already past the top of the 4,000 to 5,000 that FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford predicted. Flight-tracking app Flighty said the outage has now caused more cancellations than the 2024 CrowdStrike software failure. "I do think the worst is behind us," Bedford said, and he apologized to travelers.
The FAA halted departures nationwide for more than four hours Friday, the longest ground stop since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. About 12,000 flights couldn't be completed, Bedford said.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the outage began while L3Harris Technologies, which runs the network, was doing routine work to switch lines from copper wire to fiber at a remote FAA site. A router involved in the work flooded the rest of the system, disrupting communications with airplanes and radar. Duffy said officials are working to determine "whether we had incompetence" by the contractor or a faulty router. "Until I can build" a new network, he said, "I'm stuck with L3Harris." Bedford said the review will determine whether the router was installed or configured incorrectly, or was simply defective.
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It's 100% on L3 Harris. They tried to install a misconfigured/faulty router (was NO WAY tested before the change) and didn't have a test/backout plan.
Sheer incompetence. As bad as any I've seen.
And I've led 100s of MAJOR network changes over 40 years.
Should have went with RS-232.
The network is so old it was probably a bridging loop.
Worse, somebody left it in place for several hours.
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