Follow-Up: Eurocontrol Suspends U.S.-Bound Departures From Its 42 Member States at the FAA's Request
Eurocontrol, the European air traffic management organization, on November 13 suspended departures bound for the United States from its 42 member states at the request of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), extending the impact of the U.S. nationwide ground stop across the Atlantic. The FAA had ordered departing flights halted at airports across the United States earlier the same day. U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin said the same day that there was no timetable for resolving the technical problems.
Eurocontrol coordinates air traffic management across much of Europe, and its 42 member states include Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Israel. According to Reuters, the organization posted the suspension on its website, halting U.S.-bound departures from Friday. The FAA has said international flights already heading to the United States will be handled on a case-by-case basis.
The FAA issued the nationwide ground stop shortly before 4 p.m. Eastern time on November 13, citing a communications failure affecting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said technicians were investigating the malfunction, but the specific equipment at fault and a time for full restoration had not been established. The initial order ran until 11:30 p.m. Eastern, which officials stressed was not a promised restoration time.
Secretary Mullin told reporters at the White House on Friday that the ground stop stemmed from a communications failure, was "not another 9/11" and was ordered out of caution. Two law enforcement officials told CNN that preliminary indications pointed away from a cyberattack, and the FBI was monitoring nationwide. Mullin said the problem was unrelated to a Microsoft outage earlier in the week and warned that resolution could be an extended process. The Associated Press reported that the FAA later began clearing some flights individually; flights within Alaska and within Hawaii had already been permitted to depart.
GSM will continue to follow the lifting of the ground stop and the restoration of transatlantic services.
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(Source: Eurocontrol)
Source: Eurocontrol
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