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U.S. ground stop meant delays, not blanket flight cancellations

A correspondent at Dulles explained the limits of the emergency order, while a later bulletin reported that the departure restriction had been lifted.

Channel: NMás ·

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Emergencia en Estados Unidos: Detienen todos los vuelos a nivel nacional por seguridad

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0:08Moutsatsos reports that the FAA has ordered a nationwide ground stop.
1:27Flights are being held before departure, not formally canceled across the board.
2:05The correspondent raises a technical failure as a possible explanation, with investigation still underway.
4:00A live flight map shows aircraft continuing to operate above the United States.
4:30Moutsatsos says the order does not require aircraft already airborne to land immediately.

The urgent alert sounded sweeping, but Ariel Moutsatsos made a careful distinction: flights waiting to depart could not take off. That did not mean they had all been canceled, or that aircraft already flying had been ordered to land.

Reporting by telephone from Washington Dulles International Airport, near the U.S. capital, the correspondent told Mexico's NMás that the Federal Aviation Administration had issued a nationwide ground stop, citing extraordinary circumstances and safety reasons.

The breaking-news upload is titled "Emergencia en Estados Unidos: Detienen todos los vuelos a nivel nacional por seguridad" ("Emergency in the US: All flights halted nationwide for security reasons"). Within the report, Moutsatsos gives a narrower explanation of what the order required: aircraft on the ground had to wait before departing.

Presenter Noelia brings up a live flight-tracking map showing aircraft continuing to move over the United States. Moutsatsos reiterates that, at that point, there was no order requiring those aircraft to land immediately.

During the initial telephone report, he raises a technical failure as a possibility rather than an established explanation. Subsequent coverage attributes a more specific account to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: a communications problem was affecting the air traffic control centers responsible for overseeing flights en route, and FAA technicians were investigating.

The channel's later Hora 21 bulletin reports that the departure restriction had been lifted, moving the story beyond the emergency order captured in this initial dispatch.

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