Nationwide ground stop ordered at airports, including Philadelphia International Airport: FAA

Some breaking news now, really an extraordinary situation involving the nation's airports. There is a nationwide ground stop involving all airports across the United States. This is only the second time since 9-11 that this has happened. The FAA is saying this is that the system has gone down. This is a communications issue, but also for reasons of safety. They have ordered a nationwide ground stop. At all airports across the country. And forgive me, I want to make sure I get all these details correct. So putting glasses on here. But they do say this is an extraordinary circumstance. As Sarah indicated, it's extraordinarily rare. We've only seen this two times now since 9-11. The other time, this is the second time. The other time was when a national system went down in 2023. Pilots could not get their pre-departure paperwork done. This time, it seems linked to some threat of safety right now. Now, what that means is that all departing traffic ...is remaining on the ground right now at airports all across the country. You're looking live at LAX right now, where lines or planes are lined up. Passengers are on those planes now wondering what in the world is going on. Meanwhile, inbound international flights will be managed on what they're calling a case-by-case basis, whether they let those planes land or not. And just to let you know how rare this is, when word went out... About this over air traffic control, one of the pilots responded by saying, you said Nashville, as in Nashville alone, and the person responded, no, national. This is the entire United States now, no flights being allowed to take off and planes only being allowed to land now on a case-by-case basis. Truly an extraordinary moment in aviation history.