Thousands Of Flights Canceled, Travelers Stranded After FAA Ground Stop FridayHuffPost's live-updates article tracks the FAA's nationwide ground stop on Friday, caused by a failed legacy communications system that overloaded and issued faulty data, delaying nearly 10,000 flights and canceling about 5,000 before the stop was lifted after roughly four hours. Officials said the public was never in danger and ruled out a cyberattack, while President Trump had not addressed the outage but instead posted about a bipartisan entertainment-industry bill — an attempt to rename artificial intelligence that HuffPost calls absurd.