{"id":110492,"date":"2026-11-13T18:17:38","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T23:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=8b37b96dfcf3574fb7de19434cd75717"},"modified":"2026-11-13T18:17:38","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T23:17:38","slug":"faa-orders-third-nationwide-ground-stop-in-its-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=110492","title":{"rendered":"FAA orders third nationwide ground stop in its history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/11\/faa-orders-third-nationwide-ground-stop-in-its-history\/\">Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Well, that's probably not good.\nI see some credible theorizing that L3Harris botched an ongoing upgrade to (or the maintenance of the old) the system the ARTCC regional centers use to communicate.<\/div><p>On Friday afternoon, days after expanding use of an <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/features\/2026\/11\/faa-expands-ai-advice-to-manage-air-traffic-congestion-across-entire-us-airspace\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AI tool<\/a>, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a nationwide ground stop, halting departures from all US airports. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy announced the ground stop <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SecDuffy\/status\/2121351591106072679\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on X<\/a>, citing a \"communication issue impacting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers.\" Duffy promised updates as more information is known and said FAA staff were troubleshooting the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said that the ground stop was not prompted by a security threat.&nbsp;\"This is a telecommunications outage out of the FAA. Out of an abundance of caution, we have grounded all of the flights,\" Mullin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/video\/secy-mullin-says-faa-ground-stop-was-caused-by-telecommunication-outage-273475141556\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>. \"There's no indication as of yet that this is a nefarious attack against us.\"<\/p>\n<p>Mullin said the FAA would handle incoming international flights on a case-by-case basis.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/11\/faa-orders-third-nationwide-ground-stop-in-its-history\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/11\/faa-orders-third-nationwide-ground-stop-in-its-history\/#comments\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday afternoon, days after expanding use of an AI tool, the Federa&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=110492\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}