US air travel slowly recovers from nationwide flight ground stop as chaos continues
On Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a rare nationwide ground stop.
Key points
- On Saturday morning, more than 3,000 flights within, into or out of the US had already been canceled, according to FlightAware.
- More than 8,200 flights, or over 31% of those scheduled in the United States, were canceled.
The ground stop lasted nearly five hours and was the longest in the country since September 11, 2001.
Officials blamed outdated air traffic communications equipment, and said that there was no evidence of a cyber attack.
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