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Paris' international airports have experienced flight delays due to a US Federal Aviation Administration system failure that has affected international flights into North America. Latest reports say air traffic to the US is slowly returning to normal.

President Joe Biden had been briefed on the FAA’s system outage, and says there was no evidence of a cyberattack.

A ‘ground stop’ halted takeoffs across the US because pilots could not access a key computer system

U.S. flights were slowly beginning to resume departures and a ground stop was lifted after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) scrambled to fix a system outage overnight that forced a halt to all U.S. departing flights.

Flight departures began resuming early Wednesday across the United States after an overnight outage to a key air-traffic system prompted authorities to ground all planes nationwide.

US President Biden orders investigation into problem as flights begin to resume across the country.

All flights in the United States have been grounded due to a glitch in a system that alerts pilots to potential hazards.

All airlines have been ordered to halt departures

Departures across the U.S. were halted for two hours Wednesday morning after the agency's system for alerting pilots and airports of real-time hazards went dark, frustrating thousands of travelers.

Nationwide, more than 1,000 flights were canceled, and more than 6,000 were delayed by 11 a.m. Wednesday, according to the flight tracking website FlightAware.

The U.S. aviation sector was struggling to return to normal on Wednesday after a nationwide ground stop imposed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) over a computer issue that forced a 90-minute halt to all U.S. departing flights.