All departing flights out of Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) and across the United States are currently grounded following an emergency nationwide ground stop ordered by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

The directive, which began at 3:54 p.m. ET on Friday, November 13, 2026, was issued “due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety” after a major telecommunications and frequency outage impacted all Air Route Traffic Control Centers nationwide. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin confirmed the disruption is a technical outage and not a security threat or cyberattack.