Flights were halted at and airspace closed around Wilmington, Myrtle Beach and Charleston airports on the US east coast during a February 4 military operation to down a Chinese balloon that had transited US airspace. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it “paused departures from and arrivals to” the airports “to support the Department of Defense in a national security effort”. The flight outage lasted around 90 minutes, going by the timings of the FAA announcements. The US military sent a fighter jet to shoot down the balloon over US waters in the Atlantic Ocean after President Biden pledged to

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