Normal service resuming in US after government grounds flights for hours

Domestic flights in the US were given the go-ahead to restart at around 1400 UK time, after a nationwide grounding caused by what the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) described as an IT problem. “Normal air traffic operations are resuming gradually across the US following an overnight outage to the Notice to Air Missions system that provides safety info to flight crews,” the FAA said. The update followed a near five-hour grounding after the agency ordered airlines to pause all domestic departures to enable it to “validate the integrity of flight and safety information”. During the grounding, the FAA said it