Utah cancels Friday flight to Arizona for Wildcats clash amid FAA grounding
Because of the chaos, Utah had to postpone its flight to Arizona on Friday, per Ross Dellenger of Yahoo Sports.
Key points
- Related: Texas football plans to fly to Baton Rouge Friday after FAA grounding for LSU clash Related: Clemson’s Tyler Brown, Gideon Davidson ruled out for Georgia Tech clash.
- The FAA and Secretary Duffy reported a communications problem that led to over 4,000 flight cancellations and 40,000 delays at airports across the country.
- One of them was Utah at Arizona, one of the seven Big 12 games on the schedule.
The FAA grounding of all flights on Friday had a unique effect on college football.
Additional details
- At the same time, Kansas State, Arizona State, and Baylor had planned to fly out Saturday morning if the issue wasn’t resolved.
- Watch sports LIVE with fuboTV (free trial) This all happened before 4:00 pm EST on Friday.
- Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy attributed it to old equipment being overloaded by an upgrade, causing “instability” among air traffic control and radar.
- However, the New York Times reported that the FAA ground stop is over.
- Meanwhile, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said there was no evidence of a cyberattack, but isn’t ruling out that possibility.
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