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Explainer: Why U.S. flights were grounded by a FAA system outage

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) allowed some flights to resume after an outage of the system that alerts pilots to any obstructions before take-off had earlier forced the civil aviation regulator to ground all aircraft in the United States. Over 4,000 flights were delayed and more than 600 canceled because of the outage as of […]

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Airlines hope for return to normal Thursday after computer outage snarls U.S. travel

WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) -The U.S. aviation sector was struggling to return to normal on Wednesday following a nationwide ground stop imposed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) over a computer issue that forced a 90-minute halt to all U.S. departing flights. Almost 9,400 flights have been delayed so far and over 1,300 canceled, according to FlightAware,

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