US flight outage live updates: FAA lifts nationwide ground stop as airport chaos continues in US and beyond
Sean Duffy, Trump’s transportation secretary, acknowledges tech failure led federal aviation officials to shut down system and ground flights, though details are scarce Ben Doherty, a Guardian Australia reporter, is…
Source: The Guardian ·
Sean Duffy, Trump’s transportation secretary, acknowledges tech failure led federal aviation officials to shut down system and ground flights, though details are scarce Ben Doherty, a Guardian Australia reporter, is currently on a plane at Sydney airport, waiting to fly to the US. He writes: US-bound flights out of Sydney in Australia have been held on the tarmac, some for up to three hours. Flights are being gradually cleared for departure after being held in Australia by the FAA out of concern planes would not be able to land once they reached the US. Outages in communication, radio frequencies and radar began in Chicago, according to the Air Current, an aviation news site. There is, as of now, no clear explanation of what, exactly, caused the “telecommunications outage” that forced the sudden halt to all departures at US airports. According to the tracing site FlightAware, 8,553…