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Ground Stop Lifted (Updated)
Communications issue at ARTCCs blamed.
The FAA lifted a nationwide groundstop that had paralyzed air traffic for more than five hours across the U.S. It will take days to restore the system. Earier CBS reported that a system update led to the collapse of a communications system linking all 22 ARTCC facilities across the U.S. The network said the update caused the system to reboot and it crashed during the reboot.
Earlier today the FAA ordered an extremely rare nationwide ground stop because of the outage. It’s not clear which communications system has failed, but the FAA had been replacing analog radios with digital radios. “The FAA issued a nationwide ground stop for all U.S. airports following a communication issue impacting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers,” Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said an X post. “FAA technicians are investigating the issue. We will provide immediate updates as we have them.”
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