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Federal Aviation Administration Grounds All Domestic U.S. Flights

All domestic flights in the U.S. were grounded overnight Wednesday into the morning due to a technical error. Some flights gradually started to resume shortly before 9:00 am (eastern time).

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) worked overnight to restore a system that allows air traffic control to alert pilots when there are potential hazards on their flight path. Normal air traffic operations resumed just before 9am on Tuesday while agents continued to look into the original cause of the issue, according to an update from the FAA.

“We are performing final validation checks and reloading the system now. Operations across the National Airspace System are affected,” the FAA wrote on Twitter. “We will provide frequent updates as we make progress.”

Roughly an hour after their initial tweet, the FAA sent an update to followers, announcing that the agency had “ordered airlines to pause all domestic departures until 9am Eastern Time,” to allow for research to be done on the “integrity of flight and safety information.”

Delays for arriving and departing domestic flights are likely to be substantial Wednesday, just a few short weeks after a significant winter bomb cyclone disrupted tens of thousands of flights through the holiday season.

Twitter users were quick to express concerns over the total shutdown of domestic travel, with the CEO of Evercontact writing, “This is alarming. There should be an independent audit on such a large-scale incident. Is it due to obsolete equipment? is it a hack? Human error? Accountability is key to restoring trust in an industry that can’t allow mistakes!”

The FAA then retweeted a post from White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who noted that “there is no evidence of a cyberattack at this point, but the President directed the Department of Transportation to conduct a full investigation into the causes.” She furthered that the FAA would continue to provide regular updates.

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Amsterdam airport terrorist attack foiled

Credit Dr. Jill Bellamy warning Lisa Benson show listeners as early as last November on how vulnerable Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport is to a terrorist attack, whether, conventional or using Chemical and biological weapons. This latest Daily Mail news report gives credence to her warning. Add to that would be susceptibility of Schiphol to a dirty bomb attack via the metro that runs under airport. An equivalent to the Washington, D.C. Metro attack scenario in the 2003 PBS NOVA BBC Horizon documentary, ” Dirty Bomb” we posted.

Schiphol is a major international aviation transit hub. That would make it vulnerable to a biological agent that could be spread globally, not unlike the pathway evident in the spread of the Zika virus. Let’s see how the Dutch counterterrorism echelon deals with this latest lapse in security.

Remember they didn’t respond to FBI warnings about one of the Brussels airport suicide bombers. That caused a ruckus in the Hague parliament with letters to the interior minister forcing him to fess up about the FBI warning.

Time for Geert Wilders to lead the battle to protect his fellow citizens in Holland and potentially world civilian aviation?

Meanwhile, the political trial against him by Dutch emigre Muslims for alleged hate crime violations labors on with a biased judge that included a hearing in a secure facility at where? Schiphol!

Terror at Amsterdam airport: Passengers stranded as armed police and bomb squad storm terminal after man was seen acting suspiciously

Amsterdam airport was evacuated last night as armed police and a bomb squad patrolled the terminal after officials reported a ‘suspicious situation’.

One man was arrested by military police on the plaza outside the main entrance to the airport following the warning and his bags were searched by bomb disposal experts.

Heavily armed Dutch special military police, wearing balaclavas, were seen guarding the airport, which has been on high alert since the March 22 attacks in Brussels.

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EDITORS NOTE: The featured image of Dutch police at the Amsterdam airport is by the Associated Press.