Travelers Wait at Virginia Airport as Thousands of Flights Delayed Amid FAA Outage

More than 5,800 flights across the United States were delayed on Wednesday, January 11, FlightAware reported, after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ordered a stoppage of all domestic flights.

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said that the FAA order was in response to “an outage affecting a key system for providing safety information to pilots.”

The FAA updated travelers just before 9 am ET, saying that the “ground stop has been lifted” and that “normal air traffic operations are resuming gradually across the U.S. following an overnight outage to the Notice to Air Missions system that provides safety info to flight crews.”

Video posted by Jonah Goldman on Wednesday shows groups of people waiting at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia. Reporters and camera crews were on the scene, footage shows. Credit: Jonah Goldman via Storyful

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