An extremely rare nationwide ground stop was issued at airports across the US Friday – and the flight fiasco is being blamed on a botched software update, sources told The Post.
Just before 4 p.m., the Federal Aviation Administration announced the unprecedented move to ground all flights – prompting a wave of cancellations at some of the nation’s busiest airports – citing “extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety.”
Sources said a glitchy software update was to blame for the snafu that snarled air travel for millions, causing just the third-ever national ground stoppage since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
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