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.

Flag carrier Philippine Airlines is monitoring its flights to and from the United States after the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) lifted a nationwide ground stop that disrupted air travel for several hours on Friday.

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.

The rare nationwide ground stop lasted about five hours on Friday. An update to the network connecting the air traffic control system caused a reboot, crash and outage, sources told CBS News.

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 ...