{"id":88411,"date":"2026-11-13T16:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T21:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=88411"},"modified":"2026-11-13T16:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T21:36:16","slug":"flights-halted-across-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/flights-halted-across-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Flights Halted Across U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration grounded all flights nationwide Friday afternoon because of communications problems at regional air traffic control centers.. The FAA notice said the ground stop was being imposed \u201cdue to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said there is a communications issue affecting the regional air traffic control centers that direct planes between airports nationwide. He said FAA technicians are investigating. This is the first nationwide ground stop since <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/science-federal-aviation-administration-business-9e277db75130cc7e4d4b6c6a7bdaad7c\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">January 2023<\/a><\/span> when a key FAA computer system malfunctioned. Before that the last time had been after the Sept. 11, 2011 terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"> <em> <strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/flights-halted-airports-faa-f81b0904331dafad6133f291e5f531a8\">[For Full Story<\/a><\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mywabashvalley.com\/federal-executions\/william-lecroy-executed-at-u-s-penitentiary\/\">]<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>From NBC:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FAA issued a nationwide ground stop for all U.S. airports following communication issues impacting multiple Air Route Traffic Control Centers,\u201d the FAA said.\u00a0The agency said in a statement that \u201cFAA technicians are investigating the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Inbound international flights will be managed on a case by case basis, the FAA said.\u00a0Nationwide ground stops are extremely rare. In January 2023, the FAA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/01\/11\/faa-orders-airlines-to-pause-departures-until-9-am-et-after-system-outage.html\">halted flights<\/a> because of issues with a\u00a0pilot alert system. Before that, traffic was halted nationwide after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: The Federal Aviation Administration grounded all flights nationwide Friday afternoon because of communications problems at regional air traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}