FAA grounds all US flights due to 'telecommunication outage' — officials say ' no indication...that this was a nefarious attack,' but they can't rule out a cyberattack yet
For the first time in 25 years, the FAA has called a ground stop for all air traffic in the US. US officials said a telecommunications issue has hampered Air Traffic Control Centers across the US and their ability to communicate with planes in the air.
Around 4:30PM ET, the FAA issued, according to ABC News, an extraordinary alert to pilots that reads in part:
"Due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety. Attention all aircraft operators. By order of the Federal Aviation Command Center, all airports are ground stopped."
While US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has yet to issue a public statement, Department of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin told reporters that this grounding, or the cause of it, "is not a threat to the US," and added it was a telecommunications outage.
He did not detail the exact affected technology, though, when asked about the coincidence of the ...
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