US nationwide flight ground stop traced to failed air traffic control router upgrade
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US officials said a routine replacement of communications routers linking the air traffic control system, not a cyberattack, caused Friday's nationwide FAA ground stop at 3:54 p.m. Eastern over a telecommunications outage; it ended after more than four hours at 8:15 p.m. More than 9,000 US flights were cancelled the day before and over 5,000 on Saturday as carriers cleared backlogs from the longest nationwide halt since 9/11.
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