FAA Grounds All US Flights Over Telecom Outage, Airborne Count Drops to 778
DataPlusScience · x · 2026-11-14
At 3:50 PM ET, 2,229 passenger planes were over the lower 48 states. Three minutes later the FAA halted every departure citing a telecom outage; by 5:08 PM only 778 remained airborne. The ground stop was still in place.
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