{"id":88115,"date":"2026-11-13T18:08:39","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T23:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=88115"},"modified":"2026-11-13T20:45:02","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T01:45:02","slug":"faa-orders-nationwide-ground-stop-due-to-telecom-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/11\/13\/faa-orders-nationwide-ground-stop-due-to-telecom-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA Orders Nationwide Ground Stop Due to Telecom Outage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

UPDATE: THE GROUND STOP IS LIFTED<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FAA has lifted the nationwide ground stop after more than four hours. Flights are departing again as air traffic control facilities recover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The stop, issued at 3:54 PM ET, grounded every departure in the country after a telecommunications outage hit air traffic control centers nationwide. The FAA says it acted out of an abundance of caution, and officials say there was no indication of a threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The damage is done for a lot of travelers, though. More than 10,000 flights were disrupted, and about 600 were diverted. JetBlue has canceled the rest of its Friday flights and some on Saturday, and cancellations are expected to stretch into the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Original Article: *************************** Below **************<\/p>\n\n\n

\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ordered a nationwide ground stop for all departing flights across the United States on Friday afternoon, November 13, 2026. While the initial advisory cited “extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety,” officials have since clarified that the halt is due to a widespread telecommunications outage affecting regional air traffic control centers.<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key Details of the Outage<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
    \n
  • Cause of the Stoppage:<\/strong> Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy stated that a communication issue is impacting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers. Law enforcement sources indicated the malfunction affects radio frequencies used for pilot and controller communications.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • No Security Threat Indicated:<\/strong> Both the White House and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin emphasized that there is no evidence of a cyberattack, hack, or “nefarious act”. Mullin noted that investigators are looking into whether the outage is linked to the FAA’s recent nationwide rollout of a new artificial intelligence system used for rerouting planes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Current Flight Status:<\/strong> All flights currently in the air are accounted for and are being brought in to land safely. International arrivals are being handled on a case-by-case basis, while domestic departures remain halted out of an abundance of caution.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Travel Impact & Timeline:<\/strong> Flight-tracking data from FlightAware quickly recorded over 8,000 delays and 400 cancellations nationwide. FAA technicians are actively investigating the system failure, though officials have not yet provided a timeline for when normal flight operations will resume.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    If you have upcoming travel plans, check directly with your airline for rebooking waivers and live flight status updates before heading to the airport.<\/p>\n\n\n

    \n
    \"\"<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    UPDATE: THE GROUND STOP IS LIFTED The FAA has lifted the nationwide ground stop after more than four hours. Flights are departing again as air traffic control facilities recover. The… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvbGFrZWxhbmRnYXpldHRlLmluZm9cL25ld3NcL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjZcLzExXC9pbWFnZXMtMi04LndlYnAiLCJ0eHQiOiJGQUEgT3JkZXJzIE5hdGlvbndpZGUgR3JvdW5kIFN0b3AgRHVlIHRvIFRlbGVjb20gT3V0YWdlIiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJkb2lzIiwiZm9udCI6IiIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.VTfxrok2aONaODkZqXNttdIlJB62u7ZotD6UjxqHgg8MQ"},"version":2,"media_source":"sig","attached_media":[{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/jetpack.com\/redirect\/?source=sigenerate&query=t%3DeyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvbGFrZWxhbmRnYXpldHRlLmluZm9cL25ld3NcL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjZcLzExXC9pbWFnZXMtMi04LndlYnAiLCJ0eHQiOiJGQUEgT3JkZXJzIE5hdGlvbndpZGUgR3JvdW5kIFN0b3AgRHVlIHRvIFRlbGVjb20gT3V0YWdlIiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJkb2lzIiwiZm9udCI6IiIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.VTfxrok2aONaODkZqXNttdIlJB62u7ZotD6UjxqHgg8MQ","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[19376,15927,18311,19375,19373,19374,15926,17203],"class_list":["post-88115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-air-traffic-control","tag-aviation","tag-faa","tag-flight-delays","tag-ground-stop","tag-telecommunications-outage","tag-transportation","tag-travel-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88115"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88143,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88115\/revisions\/88143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}