US flights resume after communications outage grounds planes for hours

The US Federal Aviation Administration has said flight departures can now resume after it lifted a nationwide ground stop due to a communications problems, reported news agency AP.

All flights in the US had been grounded for several hours and hundreds of airplanes were diverted due to “extraordinary circumstances”, said FAA officials. The disruption was caused by communications problems at regional air traffic control centres.

The US FAA had halted departures from airports across the United States on Friday after communications problems hit regional air traffic control centres. The agency said the decision was made keeping the safety of workers and passengers as technicians investigated the outage.

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