US air traffic control comms failure halts flights nationwide for 4+ hours

A communications failure in US air traffic control systems grounded takeoffs nationwide for over four hours, causing thousands of cancellations and delays expected to persist through the weekend. The root cause remains unconfirmed, and the full operational and economic impact is still unfolding. This is a rare, system-wide infrastructure disruption affecting a critical transport node.

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