The unexpected outage left passengers to their own devices as they waited for the FAA to lift the ground stop.

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The FAA temporarily grounded all domestic departures Wednesday morning until 9 a.m. ET. Travelers took to social media to share their experiences during the estimated 5,000 delays. Some held out hope and played card games while other gave up for the day and went home to sleep.

A Federal Aviation Administration system outage left thousands of travelers stranded...

Continue Reading Passengers stranded by FAA system outage kill time playing cards, getting sleep, and snapping selfies after mass delays and cancellations