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Flights grounded throughout Midwest after temporary outage at Minnesota air traffic control facility: FAA
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Key Points:
- A system outage at a Minneapolis air traffic control facility caused flight diversions and ground holds for planes entering and leaving Minnesota and nine other Midwest states.
- The affected systems included radar and air traffic control, which were later restored, though disruptions persisted at several regional airports.
- The outage impacted a major ATC facility managing airspace over 330,000 square miles, not the Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport itself.
- Delays at Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport averaged 90 minutes Thursday evening, with ongoing delays expected at airports in Michigan, Kansas, Missouri, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, and Wisconsin.
- The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the cause of the outage; the situation is still developing.
