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Mexico City departure boards show fallout from U.S. flight halt

Reports from both terminals and Mexico's Caribbean airports trace the disruption south of the border; a later bulletin says the U.S. restriction was lifted.

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En vivo: Suspenden despegues en todos los aeropuertos de Estados Unidos

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0:00Mexico's aviation authority warns of temporary restrictions and delays affecting flights to the United States.
3:05Moutsatsos explains that aircraft already airborne can continue flying and land in the United States.
13:42Guerrero reports relative calm at Mexico City's Terminal 1, with Houston, Phoenix and Dallas departures delayed.
38:20Navarro reports from Las Vegas that passengers have been taken off aircraft and sent to collect luggage.
44:07Santa Anna shows Mexico City's Terminal 2 departure board, with at least 11 U.S.-bound flights delayed.
46:30Valdez says Caribbean airport monitoring does not mean every flight under review is canceled or delayed.

Houston, Phoenix, Dallas and Los Angeles appear among the delayed destinations as reporters check departure boards at Mexico City's Benito Juárez International Airport. The corridors remain relatively calm, but the disruption across the border is reaching passengers waiting to fly north.

Mexico's NMás follows that impact in its rolling broadcast, "En vivo: Suspenden despegues en todos los aeropuertos de Estados Unidos" ("Live: Takeoffs suspended at all US airports"). The program opens with Mexico's Federal Civil Aviation Agency warning of temporary restrictions and delays on U.S.-bound flights.

The immediate cause, according to U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's explanation relayed in the coverage, was a communications problem affecting the Federal Aviation Administration's en-route air traffic control centers. Aircraft already airborne could continue flying and land. A later bulletin from the broadcaster reports that the departure restriction has been lifted.

At Mexico City's Terminal 1, Carlos Guerrero describes delayed departures without crowded or disorderly corridors. Francisco Santa Anna then checks Terminal 2, where the board shows at least 11 delayed flights to U.S. destinations.

The Caribbean picture is more qualified. Reporting from Quintana Roo, Elizabeth Valdez says flights from Cancún, Tulum and Cozumel are being monitored. She stresses that being on that watch list does not mean every flight is canceled or delayed.

Across the border, the scenes become more uncomfortable. At Washington Dulles, Ariel Moutsatsos reports lines at airline counters and passengers sleeping on carpeted floors. From Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, Juan Manuel Navarro describes passengers being told to leave their aircraft and collect their luggage.

The broadcast also raises the simultaneous Microsoft service outage, reading a company apology concerning systems including Outlook, but establishes no connection to the aviation failure. Its clearest account is the airport-by-airport picture: delayed departures in Mexico, and longer waits, cancellations and deplaning at the U.S. airports its correspondents visit.