US Air Emergency: Due to the sudden halt of air traffic in America on Friday afternoon, all flights taking off from airports across the country were stopped with immediate effect. Which was removed after about hours and now flights have started operating. According to Trump administration officials, the new technology added to the country's air traffic control system caused too much burden on the old system. This caused disruptions in communications and gaps in radar coverage, leading to the longest grounding of flights across the country for the first time in the last 25 years.
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There was a ban on most flights from airports in America for five hours. This affected thousands of flights across the country and possibly over a million passengers. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told reporters at the White House that no one was in danger, as more than 3,000 planes had landed safely. But Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said he could not guarantee it would not happen again. Mullin explained that the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) was installing “new equipment and new technology,” “which put a lot of stress on the old system.” According to Mullin, there has been no indication that this was a cyber attack.
After the ban on flights was lifted, some domestic flights started taking off from Friday evening, but it may take several days for the airlines to completely return to normalcy, as many aircraft and their crew members were not at their scheduled destinations. Officials believe that the system will be completely back to normal by then to handle the huge rush during Thanksgiving. This incident of stopping flights across the country has happened for the first time since January 2023, when one of the FAA's main computer systems malfunctioned. This is the second such major incident since the September 11, 2001 attacks.