MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency

US grounds all departing flights over an air traffic control communications failure

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday ordered a halt to all flights departing from the country’s airports “due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety”, following a communications failure affecting air traffic control centres. Thousands of flights were cancelled or delayed and hundreds of thousands of passengers were stranded. The government has so far ruled out an attack. Read full article