US officials warn of repeat flights in the country

Hamoon Sat Nov 2026 16 hours ago 52

However, lifting the restriction does not mean an immediate return to normal. Sean Duffy, the U.S. transportation secretary, has warned that rescheduling flights will take time, and the incident has affected tens of thousands of passengers, with some forced to spend the night at airports.


A widespread disruption to communications systems used for air traffic control affected thousands of flights within the United States and on international routes. Fox News, citing data from the FlightAware website, reported that more than 4,400 flights in the United States, departing from or arriving in the country, were canceled on Friday, while the number of delayed flights exceeded 10,000. The website’s global figures show more than 5,100 canceled flights and more than 26,000 delayed flights. Not all of these cases are necessarily related to the disruption in the U.S. aviation system.


Donald Trump, the U.S. president, has said a cyberattack or artificial intelligence is unlikely to have been involved. He said the problem may have stemmed from old, faulty equipment used in aviation systems, which, he said, efforts have been made to modernize. Markwayne Mullin, the U.S. homeland security secretary, also stressed that no cyberattack had occurred and that the issue had nothing to do with Microsoft. Referring to experts’ efforts to resolve the problem, he said the response was on the right track.


On Friday, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration ordered a halt to outbound flights nationwide, citing unusual conditions and the need to observe safety considerations. Sean Duffy had also confirmed that a communications problem had affected air traffic control centers along flight routes, and the agency’s technical specialists had stepped in to identify and resolve it. In its notice, the agency had asked all outbound flights to stop taking off until further notice.


This is the third nationwide halt to flights in the United States in the past 25 years. Such action was previously taken on September 11, 2001, following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, and again on January 11, 2023, after a disruption to the system that sends safety alerts to pilots. Despite the lifting of the latest order, U.S. officials have warned that a full return of the flight network to normal may take time.



The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration announced that the nationwide ban on aircraft takeoffs has ended after more than four hours, and flights can once again depart from the country’s airports.

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