FAA halts all US departures for over four hours after outage

The FAA stopped departures from every US airport on Friday afternoon and reopened the airspace at 8:15 pm ET, Transport Secretary Sean Duffy said. He blamed routers overloaded with data on an ageing network. FlightAware counted 10,079 delays and 4,238 cancellations by 7:30 pm ET, and officials said there was no sign of a cyberattack.