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FAA Ground Stop Impacts Atlanta

The FAA issued a nationwide ground stop, halting all US departures as air traffic control communications failed, per wabe.org.

Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport experienced increasing delays and flight disruptions, with officials confirming the grounding, reports ajc.com.

The outage stems from frequency issues, not a cyberattack, according to the FAA and Reuters.

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People were searching for this story in 41 of the 54 countries E14 follows on Google Trends. Rank = its place among the searches that trended in that country within four hours of it.

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Sources —

7 articles
01ajc.com · 13 NovFAA issues nationwide ground stop, delays in Atlanta and elsewhere mount 02wabewabe.org · 13 NovFlights halted at Hartsfield - Jackson and airports across US due to air traffic control communications problems, FAA says 03fox5atlanta.com · 13 NovNationwide FAA ground stop: Atlanta airport hit with increasing delays 04enen.philenews.com · 13 NovThousands of flights disrupted as US grounds all air traffic over communications outage 05patch.com · 13 NovFAA Orders Nationwide Ground Stop, Halting Flights Across Southeast 06flightradar24flightradar24.com · 12 NovAtlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport Departures 07flightradar24flightradar24.com · 10 NovFort Lauderdale Hollywood International (FLL) (KFLL) live departures

Open data on the globe —

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US national ground stop · FAA NAS Status · in the feed since 21:29 UTC
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 · 657 (-81% since 21:42 UTC)
“The FAA has a national ground stop on: departures are held across the US. We count 657 aircraft still in the air over the lower 48.”
FAA NAS Status · aircraft: adsb.lol · Open the same data on nasstatus.faa.gov →
US ground stop lifted · FAA NAS Status · in the feed since 21:29 UTC
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 · 472 (-86% since 21:42 UTC)
“Planes are climbing back into the sky over the US: departures are starting again after the FAA's ground stop.”
FAA NAS Status · aircraft: adsb.lol · Open the same data on nasstatus.faa.gov →

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Here it turns on organizations: ground stop, air traffic control communications, Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and flight disruptions.

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The floor of companies and infrastructure. In this briefing: ground stop, air traffic control communications, Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, flight disruptions, outage stems from frequency issues, cyberattack.

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