Top Stories· August 18, 2026 at 11:00 a.m.
FAA Outage Disrupts Over 1,100 Flights Due to Potential Interference
Key takeaways
- More than 1,100 flights were disrupted
- The outage lasted for approximately two hours
- The incident occurred on August 6th
On August 6th, a two-hour outage at the Minneapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center disrupted more than 1,100 flights across its nine-state airspace sector, spanning over 330,000 square miles. The incident occurred just two days after President Donald Trump's departure from the White House, during which his Marine One military helicopter attempted to communicate with Reagan National Airport but was not heard by air traffic controllers.
