A nationwide ground stop halted US flights for four hours on Friday after maintenance work on old copper wiring disrupted air traffic control communications, the Trump administration said. The FAA reported 12,000 flights canceled Friday and expected a full return to normal schedules by Sunday.
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The nationwide halt was lifted at 8:15 pm Eastern Time Friday (0115 GMT Saturday).
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Tired. Exhausted. Frustrated. Yeah, you know, it's just a mess, right?
sincere apology to the American traveling public
Either through contractor error or a faulty piece of equipment...it started flooding other routers in our air traffic control system
Cut the crap
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Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) chief Bryan Bedford said that 12,000 flights were canceled on Friday
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between four and five thousand flights out of 41,000 scheduled for Saturday were likely to be canceled as well
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as of Saturday evening, the tracking website FlightAware had recorded more than 6,200 canceled flights
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Duffy appealed for $50 billion in funds to upgrade and modernize the air traffic control system
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