The 'deeply woeful' condition of America's airspace system

Simon Marks reports live from Houston, Texas as all departing flights from the US were grounded in 'unprecedented circumstances'. Simon was on board a plane to Houston when news came in that all flights in the US were to ground. Reporting from the skies over the Lone Star State, he said: "It's estimated that there are more than 3,000 flights currently in the skies, either above America or heading to America." An estimated 1.5 million passengers were left stranded on Friday when all flights across the US were stopped by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which cited telecommunications outages as the cause for the stop. Head of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin has said the groundstop was not related to the international Microsoft crash which occurred between the 12th and 13th of November. Listen to the full show on the all-new LBC App: https://app.af.lbc.co.uk/btnc/thenewlbcapp #simonmarks #usnews #faa #flight #airport #travel #uspolitics #LBC LBC is the home of live debate around news and current affairs in the UK. Join in the conversation and listen at https://www.lbc.co.uk/ Sign up to LBC's weekly newsletter here: https://l-bc.co/signup