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US Skies in Confusion
An outage in the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s communications network on Friday halted departing flights across the country for more than four hours, while about 4,000 aircraft were in the air. The planes landed safely, despite air traffic controllers having limited capabilities. The disruption affected a student pilot on his first solo cross-country flight. At air traffic control’s direction, he returned to Hicks Airport near Fort Worth and landed safely. Tens of thousands of travelers were stranded, and airlines warned of further cancellations because aircraft and crews were out of position. Air traffic was not expected to return to normal until late Sunday.
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