Live updates: FAA grounds flights nationwide because of communication issue

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said there was “no indication ” that anything “nefarious” was behind the ground stop, but blamed a telecommunications outage.

Danielle Curry heard about the nationwide ground stop on her way to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport but still went to inquire about her flight.

“They don’t know if the flights are going to even go today, so they let me change it to tomorrow,” she said.

“I just wanted to get home,” she said. “But my aunt lives here, so I’m going back to my aunt’s house, so I’m lucky compared to most.”

But the uncertainty about the cause of the extraordinary ground stoppage, coupled with world events left Curry uneasy.

“It’s a little scary, like is it cyberattack? Like what is actually happening?” she said.

Officials have said that there were no initial indications of a cyberattack, but that a cause for the telecommunication outage had not yet been determined.

NBA, NHL and college teams were left stranded as they tried to reach their destinations, and NFL teams were left to wonder whether the issue would be resolved in time for them to travel to their games this weekend.

Most college football teams playing tomorrow…

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