The FAA imposed a national ground stop on US departures, affecting San Diego's Lindbergh Field, per Reuters and PBS reports. The advisory, issued at 20:53 UTC, held all US departures due to air traffic control communications outages.
Flight operations at San Diego are suspended under the advisory, which lifted around 01:28 UTC on 14 Nov, after about 4 hours and 35 minutes. Nearly 5,000 flights were cancelled, according to Business Insider; JetBlue cancelled most of its remaining flights, per the NY Post.
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 operations.
Here it turns on organizations: national ground stop, air traffic control communications outages, Flight operations and 5,000 flights.
The floor of companies and infrastructure. In this briefing: national ground stop, air traffic control communications outages, Flight operations, 5,000 flights, US departures.