US resumes flights after a four-and-a-half-hour shutdown caused by obsolete equipment
Verified: 2 outlets have reported this story since Nov 14.
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday night lifted the nationwide ground stop it had ordered in the afternoon, after some four and a half hours of airspace closure that left thousands of flights cancelled. Donald Trump’s administration blamed the failure on overloaded, outdated analogue telecommunications equipment at air traffic control centres, ruled out a cyberattack for now and warned that the return to normal would be slow.
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Two or more outlets reported this story and its reliability score reached 65%, so WorldPulse marks it verified. That means more than one outlet says so, not that it is proven true.
Who reported it
[Claude] Report 2 covers the same FAA nationwide ground stop being lifted after about four hours, and the durations agree (over four hours versus four and a half).
19m agoAlso reported by homenewshere.com (found in GDELT's list of news articles)
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