6,400 U.S. flights scrapped as FAA outage recovery stretched into Sunday
What's new: Officials traced the disruption to L3Harris router work that destabilized communications at 17 of 22 en route centers.
U.S. air travel remained snarled Saturday after a nationwide FAA ground stop the day before, with more than 6,400 flights canceled and over 8,000 delayed as airlines struggled to recover. FAA chief Bryan Bedford said schedules were unlikely to normalize until late Sunday after the nearly five-hour halt, the longest nationwide stoppage since the Sept. 11 attacks. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the outage began during maintenance to replace older communications equipment and was traced to at least one new router installed by contractor L3Harris at a remote facility. Officials said the failure disrupted radar and aircraft communications and affected 17 of the FAA's 22 en route centers.
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