US FAA issues ground stop for all American flights

A communication breakdown is being blamed for leading to a rare ground stop of all U.S.-based aircraft.The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ordered a nationwide ground stop on all American flights on Friday afternoon.The problem has been blamed on what was called a "temporary telecommunications outage".[tweet id="2121363171361575176"]The FAA said in a social media post that the ground stop, only the third in the States since 9/11, was "out of an abundance of caution".The outage affected maj