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US nationwide flight ground stop: "Our routers got overloaded with data"

France 24 ·

On Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a rare nationwide ground stop. More than 8,200 flights, or over 31% of those scheduled in the United States, were canceled. The ground stop lasted nearly five hours and was the longest in the country since September 11, 2001. Officials blamed…

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