🇺🇸⚡️- "A congressional official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that both the White House National Security Council and Pentagon told their office it was not yet clear what had caused the outage" - NYT.

🇺🇸⚡️- "There has been a temporary telecommunications outage - out of an abundance of caution all flights have been halted. Every flight has been accounted for and international flights will be handled on a case by case basis." - FAA on X.

🇺🇸⚡️- A select few commercial airliners are being allowed to takeoff. A New York - Rome flight just took off minutes ago from JFK.

🇺🇸⚡️- Two planes took off from Boston's airport in the past 15 minutes. Only certain international flights are seemingly allowed to depart.

🇺🇸⚡️- Several flights have begun being diverted to other airports across the US.

🇺🇸⚡️- The ongoing outage involves air traffic control radars and radio frequencies that simultaneously went out, according to CNN.

🇺🇸⚡️- SpaceX carried out its Starship launch despite the outage, attempting to land and recover both rocket boosters and the spacecraft for the first time.

🇺🇸⚡️- Dozens of small propeller private planes have taken off from airports across the US in the past 30 minutes.

🇺🇸⚡️- BREAKING: "The FAA doesn’t know yet what is going on; it is affecting different facilities in different ways, ten minutes ago, they were on a crisis call and there was still no clear answer as to a cause.” - An airline source to CNN.

🇺🇸⚡️- At least 1,000 flights have been cancelled already, per FlightRadar24.

🇺🇸⚡️- Donald Trump doesn't seem very worried about the ongoing nationwide ground stop, instead focusing on the Motion Picture, Television, and Entertainment Revitalization Act.

🇺🇸🇪🇺⚡️- BREAKING: Eurocontrol suspends all flights from Europe to the US at the FAA's request.

🇺🇸⚡️- "The outage appears to be affecting a telecommunications network overseen by L3Harris Technologies, according to people briefed on the matter." - Wall Street Journal.

🇺🇸⚡️- The FAA ground stop is officially the longest since September 11th, 2001.

🇺🇸⚡️- Airline officials tell Reuters that some U.S. airlines may shut down for the rest of Friday if operations don't resume soon.

🇺🇸⚡️- BREAKING: An update to the FAA’s private communications network caused the system to reboot and crash, triggering an air traffic control communications outage, CBS News reports.

The network is operated by L3Harris.

🇺🇸⚡️- Pacific-bound flights out of San Francisco International Airport are now being cleared to fly.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- Elon Musk will join President Trump on his trip to China next week.

🇺🇸⚡️- All Delta flights out of New York's LaGuardia Airport have been canceled for the rest of the night, according to Fox News.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump told Fox News it doesn't seem the outage was caused by a cyber attack or AI.