# FAA Ground Stop Impacts DFW

- Place: Dallas/Fort Worth, United States (32.9, -97.04)
- Published: 2026-11-14T00:36:06.626Z · expires 2026-11-21T00:36:06.626Z
- Floors (The Arena): E11 Organizations, E10 Institutions, E12 States, E14 Global
- Page: https://emergencemachine.com/brief/crh
- AI-written summary of the sources below; check them.

The FAA imposed a national ground stop at 20:53 UTC, holding all US departures while managing inbound international flights individually, per Reuters and PBS reports.

The cause is attributed to air traffic control communications outages, or 'frequency issues,' as noted by the FAA. No signs of a malicious attack.

Flight N1JM is climbing out of DFW at 7,900 ft, heading northwest, while several other aircraft are in various stages of departure or approach. The national disruption has impacted all major hubs including SFO and DFW.

Searches for 'faa' have spiked globally, reaching over 10,000 in India, and 'us flights' in Ireland and Australia. Microsoft's worldwide outage is in its second day but not connected to the FAA issue.

## Sources

- [FAA halts departures nationwide after US air traffic control communications failure](https://www.airdatanews.com/faa-halts-departures-nationwide-after-us-air-traffic-control-communications-failure/) · airdatanews.com · 2026-11-13
- [A sudden FAA ground stop strands teams and throws the sports weekend into chaos](https://www.thestar.com/news/world/united-states/a-sudden-faa-ground-stop-strands-teams-and-throws-the-sports-weekend-into-chaos/article_3a472979-2350-5e35-b630-df5b9de9cf56.html) · thestar.com · 2026-11-13
- [A sudden FAA ground stop strands teams and throws the sports weekend into chaos](https://www.ksat.com/sports/2026/11/13/a-sudden-faa-ground-stop-strands-teams-and-throws-the-sports-weekend-into-chaos/) · ksat.com · 2026-11-13
- [First commercial passenger flight takes off from McKinney National Airport](https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/first-commercial-passenger-flight-takes-off-from-mckinney-national-airport/4104664/) · nbcdfw.com · 2026-11-11

## Open data shown on the globe

- US national ground stop · FAA NAS Status · in the feed since 21:29 UTC · FAA NAS Status · aircraft: adsb.lol: Airport delays from the FAA's own NAS Status feed. Aircraft counted by E14 from public ADS-B (adsb.lol), 21 sample areas over the lower 48: not every plane.; In the air over the US · 760 (-78% since 21:42 UTC) · check: https://nasstatus.faa.gov/