US grounds all flights for hours, sparking travel chaos
Verified: 109 outlets in 45 countries have reported this story since Nov 13.
The US grounded all flights for several hours Saturday, sparking travel chaos across the vast country, after what government officials said was a major communications outage caused by decades old technology. The nationwide stop left hundreds of thousands of passengers in limbo, with some pulled off planes moments before departure by airline staff who appeared in the dark about unfolding events. The incident marked only the second time such an alert had been issued in US airspace since the 9/11 attacks. Federal Aviation Authority officials lifted the groundstop after around four hours, with…
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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.
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[Claude] Report 2 covers the same nationwide ground stop and its resumption, with the same cause (a communications problem) and no conflicting facts.
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