The five-hour ordeal ended Friday evening. Planes will be allowed to fly again, but the effects of the stoppage will be felt throughout the weekend.

The over four-hour stoppage on Friday brought all air travel to a halt across the country and stranded tens of thousands of passengers.

The rare nationwide ground stop order, issued due to a communications problem affecting US air traffic control towers, caused chaos at airports and triggered the longest shutdown since the 9/11 attacks in 2001.

A nationwide FAA ground stop disrupted thousands of US flights after a communications failure. The record shutdown renewed scrutiny of ageing air traffic control infrastructure.

Pilots, a former FAA official and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy explain the nationwide ground stop, detailing the telecom overload, 48-hour recovery and funding push.

Pilots, a former FAA official and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy explain the nationwide ground stop, detailing the telecom overload, 48-hour recovery and funding push.

Longtime Slashdot readers cold fjord and sinij share news that the FAA grounded flights nationwide after a communications failure disrupted air traffic control centers across the country. By Friday evening, the outage had resulted in nearly 5,000 flight cancellations and roughly 10,000 delays, with ...