{"id":6569,"date":"2023-09-08T21:56:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T16:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/flights-to-d-c-area-briefly-grounded-due-to-communications-system-issues-faa-says\/"},"modified":"2023-09-08T21:56:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T16:26:35","slug":"flights-to-d-c-area-briefly-grounded-due-to-communications-system-issues-faa-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/flights-to-d-c-area-briefly-grounded-due-to-communications-system-issues-faa-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Flights to D.C. area briefly grounded due to communications system issues, FAA says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/rockcms\/2023-06\/230626-dulles-washington-airport-mb-1028-64ac4c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\">Flights to D.C.-area airports were able to resume normal operations after being hit with delays and redirections Sunday after the Federal Aviation Administration ordered a ground stop due to issues with a communication system at an air traffic control facility in Virginia. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;The FAA has paused departures to D.C.-area airports while repairs to a communications system are made at Potomac Terminal Radar Approach Control facility. The facility has switched to a backup system,&#8221; the FAA said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FAANews\/status\/1673095582800396288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweet<\/a> Sunday just before 6:30 p.m. ET. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It was not clear exactly what the issue with the communications system was. The FAA did not immediately respond to an overnight request for comment from NBC News. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The issue caused flight delays and redirections across the D.C. area, including all the way to Richmond, Virginia, and Baltimore, Maryland, on Sunday, NBC Washington reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The FAA <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FAANews\/status\/1673106982885105664\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> less than an hour after pausing departures that flights to D.C.-area airports had resumed, with repairs to the communications power panel complete. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;During the repairs, a back-up system handled communications safely,&#8221; the FAA said, adding: &#8220;Normal operations are resuming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"endmark\">Flights from the West Coast, Midwest and Florida bound for D.C.-area airports resumed at around 6:45 p.m. ET, while all other flights resumed at around 7 p.m., NBC Washington reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Flights to D.C.-area airports were able to resume normal operations after being hit with delays and redirections Sunday after the Federal Aviation Administration ordered a ground stop due to issues with a communication system at an air traffic control facility in Virginia. &#8220;The FAA has paused departures to D.C.-area airports while repairs to a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}