After the Silicon Valley chaos spurred by reports of an AI billionaire's affair with a suspected Chinese spy and the Microsoft outage that upended millions of workers' days, Friday's air travel ground stop across the U.S. had many people feeling that something was up
November 15, 2026The student pilot was alone in the cockpit on his first solo cross-country flight when an air traffic controller delivered an instruction he never expected
November 14, 2026US air travel is not expected to return to normal schedules until late on Sunday, the head of the FAA said, as the aviation system gradually recovers
November 14, 2026Regional U.S. air traffic control centers communicate using a complex network that is “one of the largest telecommunications systems in the country,” and disruptions like those seen this weekend following an hourslong, nationwide grounding of flights can reverberate widely, according to an aviation expert
November 14, 2026Airlines have canceled thousands of flights across the U.S. as they work to recover from a nationwide ground stop that left passengers scrambling for seats and disrupted travel around the world
November 14, 2026A massive, nearly five-hour shutdown of the US aviation system that has disrupted more than 20,000 flights since Friday may have been the fault of a
November 14, 2026What we know about the cause of the nationwide FAA ground stop
November 14, 2026Duffy says either faulty router or contractor error likely caused airspace meltdown
November 14, 2026The Federal Aviation Administration's decision to ground all flights nationwide Friday caused chaos in the sports world
November 13, 2026The grounding of all departing flights across the United States on Friday was only the second such shutdown since the September 11, 2001, attacks.
November 14, 2026The FAA lifted a nationwide ground stop on Friday after a communications failure at air traffic control
November 13, 2026The Trump administration boosted its request for air traffic control funding to $50 billion late Friday after a communications issue forced a
November 13, 2026The Federal Aviation Administration says airplane departures can resume after the agency lifted a nationwide ground stop caused by communications problems
November 13, 2026A communications failure that halted flight departures across the United States on Friday has renewed scrutiny of the country's aging air traffic
November 14, 2026FAA issues nationwide ground stop for all flights
November 13, 2026The head of the Federal Aviation Administration will testify next week before a House of Representatives panel on the ongoing $12.5 billion effort to
November 06, 2026A global shortage of air traffic controllers is fueling cross-border recruitment of experienced staff, exposing staffing gaps that are
November 04, 2026‘Mayday, mayday.’ A flight from Texas to the Bahamas ended in tragedy. What investigators are examining
November 03, 2026Texas couples, 2 young children, caregiver and pilots killed in Florida Learjet crash
November 02, 2026Air travellers faced delays and cancellations across Italy on Friday due to a technical fault affecting air traffic control, which authorities said was not caused by sabotage
October 16, 2026Italy's air traffic capacity has been fully restored after overnight issues with the data transmission network
October 16, 2026Family members say a grandmother, two of her adult daughters and her grandson were among the six people who died when a small plane crashed in Wisconsin after flying in a thunderstorm
October 15, 2026Army investigation into deadly midair collision made public after months of pressure from victims’ families
October 09, 2026A US Army investigative report into the collision of an American Airlines regional jet and an Army Black Hawk helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
October 08, 2026
