US: Nationwide Ground Stop on Flight Departures Lifted

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The Federal Aviation Administration rescinded the order to halt all departures across the United States, after more than four hours of shutdown. The widespread outage caused the cancellation and delay of thousands of flights.

Air traffic in the country is expected to resume gradually, now that the directive has been lifted.

The shutdown was caused by a widespread malfunction that affected air traffic, and the order was lifted at a point when the chaos in the country's skies had begun to ease.