FAA grounds all flights in the U.S. until further notice: Reports cite Air Traffic Control outage

In a rare move, The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said Friday that it was grounding all flights in the United States and Canada from departing “due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety . . . until further notice,” according to NBC News. The FAA reportedly issued the ground stop “due to several impacts to ATC [air traffic control] Frequencies and/or Radar capabilities,” with the FAA command center telling airlines it does not have further information on the “t...