Texarkana Regional Airport’s afternoon flight to Dallas sat at the gate for more than three hours Friday and the last arrival of the night was canceled after the Federal Aviation Administration ordered departures stopped at every airport in the country.
The FAA issued the nationwide ground stop Friday afternoon. An agency alert said the order was “due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety,” ABC News reported.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a post on X that the stop followed a communication issue affecting all of the nation’s Air Route Traffic Control Centers, the facilities that direct aircraft flying between airports. “FAA technicians are investigating the issue,” Duffy said…