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FAA Ground Stop Disrupts Sports Weekend

The FAA imposed a nationwide ground stop after an air traffic control communications failure, per Reuters and PBS reports. The advisory, issued at 20:53 UTC, halted all US departures and held inbound international flights on a case-by-case basis.

The outage, caused by 'frequency issues' with air traffic control systems, lasted about four hours and thirty-five minutes before being lifted around 01:28 UTC on November 14, according to airdatanews.com, Axios, and. Nearly 5,000 flights were cancelled, as noted by Business Insider.

The ground stop has disrupted travel plans across the region, with delays expected to persist as airlines resume operations.

The outage affected global connectivity, with searches for 'faa' trending in India and 'us flights' in Ireland and Australia, according to Google Trends data.

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What people searched for —

attention, not importance

People were searching for this story in 42 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.

#2 search in India (of 100) · 10K+ · “faa” · Google Trends →#2 search in Austria (of 37) · 2K+ · “faa” · Google Trends →#7 search in Egypt (of 36) · 1K+ · “faa” · Google Trends →#9 search in Romania (of 24) · 500+ · “faa” · Google Trends →#16 search in the UAE (of 24) · 200+ · “faa” · Google Trends →#25 search in Peru (of 59) · 200+ · “faa” · Google Trends →#1 on Bluesky · 11,322 posts · “FAA orders nationwide ground stop” · Bluesky →

Sources —

4 articles
01airdatanews.com · 13 NovFAA halts departures nationwide after US air traffic control communications failure 02thestar.com · 13 NovA sudden FAA ground stop strands teams and throws the sports weekend into chaos 03ksat.com · 13 NovA sudden FAA ground stop strands teams and throws the sports weekend into chaos 04simpleflying.com · 11 NovAmerican Airlines Cancels 8 International Routes: See Full List Now

Open data on the globe —

check it yourself
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 · 504 (-85% 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 →

Why these floors —

E11 · E14

E14 places every story on a stack of fifteen floors, from the fields under everything to the planet acting as one. This one sits on E11, organizations; the pressure it names: flight delays. Its words also reach E14 global.

Here it is a dynamic between organizations and the planet as a whole: FAA, air traffic control, ground stop and airlines resume operations (E11 organizations), with global connectivity (E14 global).

E0 fieldsE7 ecosystemsE14 global
E11 Organizationsmain floor

The floor of companies and infrastructure. In this briefing: FAA, air traffic control, ground stop, airlines resume operations.

E14 Global

The floor of the planet acting as one. In this briefing: global connectivity.

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Keep going —

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