All flights in the USA have been grounded for only the second time since 9/11, and a 2-time WWE Champion and a former star have sent out a message. The last time before this that flights were grounded was in 2023 for a notice issue, but the time before that was the infamous terrorist attacks of 9/11.
US FAA grounds flights; former WWE star and another 2-time champion grounded
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The DHS Secretary, Markwayne Mullin, issued a nationwide ground stop for all US airports. He said that a communication issue had impacted the Air Route Traffic Control Centers, making it impossible for normal operations to continue at this time. He addressed the fact that everyone was safe and there was no need for concern.
However, the idea was to restore normal operations as soon as possible and investigate what caused the communication issue in the first place. He said that, as of right now, work was going to continue on that, but no assumptions could be made as to what caused the current issue.
“Everybody’s safe. There’s no reason to be concerned about your loved ones if they’re flying or anything like that. We want to make sure everybody’s at ease about that. As we investigate what caused this, you always got to assume, as with many cyber attacks that take place, you make that assumption. But as of right now, that’s not known. So we are going to continue to work. The first thing we are going to do is we’re going to restore the communications. We’re going to get all the flights on the ground. And then we’ll get back to normal operations. But we’re going to work to find out what the root of the cause is.”
There has naturally been a lot of panic because of the announcement. Former WWE star Scarlett Bordeaux and 2-time WWE NXT Champion Karrion Kross have been affected by this as well. Bordeaux posted on her social media questioning whether all flights were still showing “On Time” and whether her flights were grounded. She said they were scheduled to fly in three hours.
“So the FAA just grounded flights, meanwhile @realKILLERkross and I are supposed to fly in 3 HOURS and our airline still says we’re ON TIME 😭 Is anyone else’s flight still showing on time like nothing is happening?!”
Further details on the situation are still coming out.
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Edited by Anirban Banerjee
