U.S. halts flight departures nationwide on air traffic communications outage

Air safety reporting is made accessible without a subscription as a public service. Subscribe to The Air Current  for full access to our scoops, in-depth reporting and industry analysis. U.S. regulators ordered aircraft departures to halt nationwide on Friday after telecommunications outages at air traffic control centers disrupted radar and radio frequencies used by controllers and pilots. The ground stop was issued at 3:44 p.m. Eastern time, with the FAA telling airlines that […]
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