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FAA Ground Stop Affects Region

The FAA has issued a national ground stop affecting all U.S. Departures, per Travel + Leisure and ABC News, as air traffic control communications systems experienced outages. The advisory, issued at 20:53 UTC, holds all departures and manages inbound international flights on a case-by-case basis.

Flight N165CD is climbing out of San Diego-Lindbergh Field at 2,700 ft, heading northwest, according to real-time tracking data. The ground stop remains in effect across the region.

The cause has been attributed to frequency issues rather than a cyberattack or natural disaster, per ABC News and FAA status updates. Microsoft's worldwide outage is not linked to this incident, as confirmed by Microsoft (People, 00:27 UTC).

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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 · 620 (-82% since 21:42 UTC)
ATL · dep 3h01–3h15
“The FAA has a national ground stop on: departures are held across the US. We count 620 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 · 498 (-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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