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F.A.A. Lifts Nationwide Ground Stop

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Thousands Remain Stranded at Airports Across U.S.

Sean Duffy, the transportation secretary, blamed “an incredibly old air traffic control system,” but officials were still investigating the cause.

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Airports Fill Up With Stuck Families and Stranded Travelers

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Madeleine Ngo

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said that the ground stop was done “out of an abundance of caution” and that there were “never any lives at risk.”

Karoun Demirjian

“Our fix gives us a pretty good indication that it was a legacy network problem that went down,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said, hinting at the origins of the crisis. He said the problem was related to old equipment being overloaded.

Chris Cameron

Duffy appeared to suggest that his effort to upgrade air traffic control infrastructure may have contributed to the outage, but he defended the upgrades by arguing that it had to be done.

Karoun Demirjian

Duffy has been clamoring for another $30 billion in air traffic modernization funds from Congress for several months now. On Friday night, he appeared to up the ante, saying he didn’t want just $30 billion — he wanted $50 billion.

Shawn McCreesh

Duffy and Mullin were asked if they could say with “100 percent certainty” that this was not the result of a cyberattack or rogue artificial intelligence. “There’s nothing certain right now,” Mullin said. “It doesn’t appear that way.”

Maggie Haberman

Instead of reassuring an anxious public, and providing concrete information, this briefing appears to be intended for President Trump’s approval.

Niraj Chokshi

By 7:45 p.m. Eastern, airlines had canceled nearly 5,000 flights within the United States that had been scheduled for Friday, according to FlightAware, a flight-tracking service. Nearly 800 flights scheduled for Saturday had already been canceled.

Jack Healy

The inside of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport is a morass of confusion and frustration. Everyone is on phones trying to rebook flights or figure out whether there is any chance of getting out of here tonight.

Zane Irwin

Major air hubs in Asia are up and running for the day. Three U.S.-bound flights from Incheon International Airport in Seoul were delayed by two hours or more, according to FlightRadar24.

Chris Cameron

Senator Tammy Duckworth, the leading Democrat on aviation in the Senate’s transportation committee, said in a statement that “whatever led to the nationwide ground stop will warrant a thorough and complete investigation.”

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