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Passengers continue to face delays and cancellations after US lifts nationwide ground stop

US Transport Secretary Sean Duffy blamed the stoppage on what he called an "incredibly old" air traffic control system and warned that it would take time for normal operations to resume.

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00:02Passengers traveling to and from the United States continue to face delays and cancellations
00:07to flights on Saturday morning, despite the Federal Aviation Administration having lifted
00:11a nationwide ground stop. The rare order had been issued on Friday following a telecommunications
00:18outage, with all flights halted across the country. Trump administration officials said
00:24new technology being added to the nation's air traffic control system overloaded antiquated
00:29equipment and caused intermittent communications and radar gaps, leading to the flight shutdown
00:34of more than four hours. More than 2,500 flights were canceled on Saturday and hundreds more were
00:42delayed as airlines across the U.S. worked to return operations to normal. The incident marked the first
00:49national stop since January 2023 and only the second since the 9-11 attacks in 2001.
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