{"id":51559,"date":"2026-11-14T03:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T02:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/14\/faa-lifts-nationwide-ground-stop-that-blocked-takeoffs-for-hours\/"},"modified":"2026-11-14T03:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T02:35:09","slug":"faa-lifts-nationwide-ground-stop-that-blocked-takeoffs-for-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/14\/faa-lifts-nationwide-ground-stop-that-blocked-takeoffs-for-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA lifts nationwide ground stop that blocked takeoffs for hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Takeoffs from airports throughout the US largely stopped on Friday after the FAA issued a national ground stop at 3:44PM ET \u201cdue to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety,\u201d while planes in the air will be allowed to land. The FAA <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FAANews\/status\/2121363171361575176\">tweeted just after 5PM ET<\/a> that, \u201cThere has been a temporary telecommunications outage &#8211; out of an abundance of caution all flights have been halted. Every flight has been accounted for and international flights will be handled on a case by case basis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More than four hours after the stop was issued, officials announced it was lifted at 8:15PM ET and that flights will resume. It\u2019s unclear how many flights will be able to take off and when, as they now face problems of overloaded airports and flight crews that have run out of time to operate the planes, meaning many people will be stuck where they are for the time being and more flights will be delayed or canceled.<\/p>\n<p>In a press conference announcing that the stop had been lifted, Transportation Secretary Ryan Duffy blamed an aging air traffic control system that he is pursuing funds to replace, saying that the TRACONs (Terminal Radar Approach Control) in the air traffic control centers \u201cstarted to have inconsistency in the data from the radars and the communications from airplanes.\u201d He said that the devices that had the issue were analog telecom devices,<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/1033489\/faa-ground-stop\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Takeoffs from airports throughout the US largely stopped on Friday after the FAA issued a national ground stop at 3:44PM ET \u201cdue to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety,\u201d while planes in the air will be allowed to land. The FAA tweeted just after 5PM ET that, \u201cThere has been a temporary telecommunications outage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":51560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[7208,36,108,357],"class_list":["post-51559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech","tag-mass-transit","tag-mixtv","tag-news","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}