Air traffic control tower in Atlanta [Shutterstock]
Key Takeaways:
The FAA has lifted the nationwide ground stop, but commercial air traffic will resume slowly as the system unwinds.
The outage was caused by overloaded old analog switches in the U.S.'s outdated air traffic control system and was not a cyberattack.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is urging Congress to authorize $50 billion for immediate modernization of the FAA's infrastructure to prevent future system failures.
The FAA has lifted the sweeping, nationwide ground stop that halted virtually all commercial air traffic in the U.S. Friday evening.
“The FAA Command Center nationwide ground stop has been cancelled” reads an advisory from the agency’s Air Traffic Control System Command Center published at 8:19 p.m. EST Friday. Per the notice, an update is expected around 11 p.m.
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