More than 15 thousand flights were delayed and canceled in the United States due to the suspension of flights throughout the country.
The Federal Aviation Authority has recommended that all aircraft in an air circuit move along certain routes instead of landing due to a communication failure.
The reason was the overload of outdated equipment: switches and routers began to produce conflicting data. The Minister of Transportation requested 50 billion dollars for the modernization of aviation equipment.
The last time a national grounding of flights to the United States was conducted in January 2023 following a failure of the pilots' warning system. Before that, similar measures were taken after attacks on September 11, 2001.