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The FAA ground stop for all U.S. airports began Friday afternoon due to "communication issues impacting multiple Air Route Traffic Control Centers," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said.

The Texas Longhorns football team has returned to campus, as a result of the nationwide FAA ground stop. Texas is slated to face off against No. 21 LSU in Baton Rouge at 6:30 p.m.

The FAA ground stop began Friday afternoon and is suspected to extend late into the night. A countrywide ground stop has occurred only two other times: in 2023 due to a NOTAM system outage and in 2001 after 9/11.

Our reporter Andres Rendon is at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport where he is hearing from passengers that they are not expecting to take off tonight and are making other plans.