Air travel halt prompts calls for FAA communications upgrades

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Transportation leaders in Congress said the Federal Aviation Administration’s Friday move to stop all U.S. flights from taking off highlights the need to pump more funding into modernizing the agency’s antiquated air traffic control communications systems. The FAA on Friday afternoon issued a highly unusual nationwide ground stop that caused mass confusion and raised questions […] The post Air travel halt prompts calls for FAA communications upgrades appeared first on Roll Call.