# Old air traffic control equipment regularly disrupts US flights

https://mins.news/en/item/143232

- Reuters, 2026-11-14 03:00 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/old-air-traffic-control-equipment-regularly-disrupts-us-flights-2026-11-14/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6af7cedfabc0340001e3bff4

> Friday’s grounding of every departing flight across the United States was only the second shutdown of its kind since the September 11, 2001, attacks. Yet communications equipment problems, the cause of the stoppage, are becoming increasingly common.

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