White House officials will hold a press conference on the FAA’s nationwide ground stop on Friday evening.
The FAA ordered all US airports to ground stop. No flights may depart, and flights already in the air will be allowed to land.
Earlier Friday, DHS Chief Markwayne Mullin said there was a ‘telecommunications outage throughout the FAA.’
“There is no indication as of yet that this was a nefarious attack,” Mullin said as he assured that every flight has been accounted for.
President Trump told Fox News reporter Peter Doocy that the ground stop does not seem to be a cyberattack.
NEW- I’ve spoken to President Trump. He says the ground stop doesn’t seem to be a cyber attack, and that nobody is taking credit for a cyber attack. Instead, this could be a result of a system that relies on some old broken stuff, that he says he’s tried to upgrade
— Peter Doocy (@pdoocy) November 14, 2026
The national ground stop was lifted Friday evening.
National Ground stop has been lifted. Expect a whole lot of residual delays/cancelations and some start and stops along the way tonight and tomorrow.
— Kris Van Cleave (@krisvancleave) November 14, 2026
According to Fox News, Secretaries Duffy and Mullin are expected to provide an update on the ground stop at approximately 8:30 ET.
Secretary Duffy said there was inconsistency in the data from radars and communications with the planes.
Duffy blamed “overloaded” and “outdated” systems for the ground stop.
“At 3:36PM, we experienced instability from our radar and our communications in our centers and our TRACONs across the country,” Duffy said.
Duffy said that the ground stop was out of the abundance of caution.
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