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America air traffic: technical malfunction in the system: flights resume after the longest suspension in 25 years

  Trump administration officials said Friday that new technology being added to the nation's air traffic control system overloaded older systems, disrupting communications and radar services and causing the longest ground stop of flights across the country in 25 years.


The ban was lifted on Friday night after five hours of grounding most flights from US airports. This affected thousands of flights and potentially more than one million passengers across the country.

Speaking to reporters at the White House, Homeland Security Secretary Markwen Mullin said no one was in danger because more than 3,000 flights had been safely grounded, but Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said he could not guarantee it wouldn't happen again.

Mullin clarified that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was deploying new equipment and new technology that affected the old system and that there was no indication of a cyber attack or malicious activity. A limited number of domestic flights began to depart after the suspension was lifted on Friday evening, although it may take several days for airlines to fully return to normal.


At least 827 flights were rerouted, of which 670 were sent back to the airport they took off from, while 157 were diverted to other airports, according to aviation analytics company Cerium. There were 3,500 aircraft in the sky at the time of the suspension, which later dropped to less than 400.
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