The FAA ordered a nationwide ground stop at 3:54 PM ET on Friday, Nov 13, halting departures at all U.S. airports after a communications issue affected all 22 Air Route Traffic Control Centers, which handle high-altitude traffic. The FAA cited “extraordinary circumstances” and “reasons of safety.” Planes already in the air were allowed to land. Inbound international flights are being handled case by case. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said FAA technicians are investigating. The cause of the outage has not been confirmed, and there is no credible evidence it was a cyberattack. Nationwide ground stops are extremely rare; the only other one since Sept. 11, 2001, was on Jan. 11, 2023, when a pilot-alert system failed for about 90 minutes. As of late afternoon, the nationwide stop was still listed on the FAA’s Command Center status board, with the advisory running into the evening. This is Fox News breaking coverage from The Will Cain Show with chief correspondent Jonathan Hunt, including a live FlightAware map and Duffy’s statement. Hunt discusses unconfirmed theories about the outage, including a possible hack; those remain unproven. Presenter is AI-generated. Footage is real. Subscribe: youtube.com/@unwantedtruthofficial
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