The Latest Breaking News on Near-misses at US airports prompts calls for ‘urgent action’

U.S. flight departures began resuming early Wednesday after an overnight outage to a key air-traffic system prompted authorities to ground planes nationwide.

A computer outage at the Federal Aviation Administration brought flights to a standstill across the US, with hundreds of delays quickly cascading through the system at airports nationwide.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) allowed some flights to resume after an outage of the system that alerts pilots to any obstructions before take-off had earlier forced the civil aviation regulator to ground all aircraft in the United States.

‘Plane is 80 per cent empty as presumably many people bailed when they saw the news’

U.S. aviation authorities halted flights nationwide early Wednesday after the failure of a key pilot notification system operated by the Federal Aviation Administration.

Several flights from Madrid airport to the United States were delayed on Wednesday morning, according to information released on the website of Aena, which operates the airport.

Paris' international airports have experienced flight delays due to a US Federal Aviation Administration system failure that has affected international flights into North America. Latest reports say air traffic to the US is slowly returning to normal.

President Joe Biden had been briefed on the FAA’s system outage, and says there was no evidence of a cyberattack.

A ‘ground stop’ halted takeoffs across the US because pilots could not access a key computer system

U.S. flights were slowly beginning to resume departures and a ground stop was lifted after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) scrambled to fix a system outage overnight that forced a halt to all U.S. departing flights.

Flight departures began resuming early Wednesday across the United States after an overnight outage to a key air-traffic system prompted authorities to ground all planes nationwide.