Day: November 13, 2026

A massive tanker collided with a river cruise boat in the Mississippi River, causing the cruise ship with more than 180 people on board, to sink.

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The 2026 FAA ground stop was only the second one to occur nationwide since 9/11. The last time was in 2023, when the FAA’s NOTAM system went down and pilots could not get their pre-departure paperwork.

On Friday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Duffy said aging, analog Time-Division Multiplexing (TDM) routers and legacy 1940s-era analog systems were the source of the problems, explaining that it got “overloaded with data” and started to experience the issues.

Watch above to see how then-President Joe Biden Karine Jean-Pierre spoke and responded to questions about the flight groundings.

Why did flights stop? Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/11/13/faa-system-failure-blamed-on-technology-updates/92770720007/

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‘It shook everything’: Titusville couple safe after tanker strikes New Orleans riverboat with them on board

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A nationwide ground stop ordered by the FAA due to a telecommunications outage disrupted flights across the U.S., leaving travelers grounded for several hours.