FAA issues rare national ground stop due to "extraordinary" circumstance
Newsweek reports that the FAA issued a rare nationwide ground stop on November 13, 2026, its third in U.S. history, after communication issues hit Air Route Traffic Control Centers, grounding flights and causing thousands of delays and cancellations. Officials including Sean Duffy and Markwayne Mullin said the outage appears to be a telecommunications failure, not an attack, while airlines and travelers scrambled to adjust.
