US airspace reopens after nationwide ground stop

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The disruption affected aviation operations across the United States and exposed vulnerabilities in an aging air-traffic-control infrastructure. Flights resumed after roughly four hours, while Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said restoring normal service would take time. The incident is the most immediate globally consequential story because it disrupted the world’s largest air-travel system and raised fresh concerns about the resilience of critical transportation infrastructure.[1][2]

Sources: BBC, Euronews