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A critical failure in the United States air traffic control system on Friday brought transatlantic aviation to a standstill, with all flights departing European airports for American destinations suspended for approximately seven hours.
Eurocontrol, the European air traffic management agency, issued the suspension order from its Network Manager Operations Centre in Brussels at 23:03 GMT on November 13, acting on a direct request from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
The advisory covered departures from all 42 Eurocontrol member states, including the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Turkey, banning US-bound flights between 22:00 UTC on November 13 and 05:00 UTC on November 14.
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US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the agency detected system instability at 3:36 p.m. Eastern Time, describing failures across "radar and communications and centres and TRACONs across the country."
He blamed an ageing infrastructure, explaining that "our switches, our routers actually got overloaded with data" and began feeding contradictory information to air traffic controllers.
