🚨Major Breaking: the Faa Has Just Issued a Nationwide Ground Stop for All Flights in the United States Due To

have other major breaking news. >> This is CNN breaking news. >> CNN has just learned that the FAA has issued a nationwide ground stop for all flights because of extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety. CNN's Richard quest is monitoring this. Richard, what is going on? >> This is quite extraordinary. Uh, I can read you in the words from the FAA themselves. Told you how serious this is. For reasons of safety, all aircraft operators, by order of the FAA, all airports are ground stopped. All departing traffic should remain ground stopped until further notice. Inbound international flights will be managed on a case by case basis. What does this mean? It means the FAA is basically shutting down all movements of air take off and landings at the moment because of what they say is going, is communication difficulties. Now, according to information received by Pete Muntean, our aviation correspondent, it's limited to the communication of en route, the air route traffic. In other words, they can still communicate. But for some reason there is outages and problems with the communications that direct or that tell airplanes which way and the various route