FAA orders nationwide ground stop, stranding travelers at LAX and airports across US

The Federal Aviation Administration issued a nationwide ground stop on Friday due to “extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety." A major outage is impacting air traffic control systems, the FAA said, and the extraordinary move has halted all flight departures across the country…

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