File photo: Airport apron, 2016 file photograph, not a location identified in the FAA advisory. Photo: Stinger20 / Wikimedia Commons / Cropped and resized, adapted image CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Federal Aviation Administration’s Air Traffic Control System Command Center issued a national ground stop Friday afternoon, an FAA advisory shows. The advisory lists the reason as “equipment / outage.”
The advisory, signed at 3:54 p.m. Eastern, states that “all airports are ground stopped” and that “all departing traffic should remain ground stopped until further notice.” Inbound international flights “will be managed on a case by case basis,” it says. The event time runs from 3:53 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Eastern (2053Z to 0400Z). The advisory gives no restart time, and the end of the event window is not a promise that flights will resume then.
The FAA advisory does not say what equipment failed, what caused the outage, or how many flights are affected. Earlier Friday, the FAA had listed separate ground stops for flights bound for Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway airports, also citing an equipment outage.
JBizNews Desk | Washington
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