华盛顿——周六，全美各地的航空公司正努力从25年来持续时间最长的全国性地面停飞中恢复过来，超过2000架次航班被取消。这导致旅客滞后，并迫使职业和大学体育队伍仓促寻找替代交通工具。
WASHINGTON — More than 2,000 flights were canceled Saturday as airlines across the U.S. worked to dig out from the longest nationwide ground stop in 25 years, which stranded passengers and forced professional and college sports teams to scramble for alternate transportation.
特朗普政府官员表示，正在加入国家空中交通管制系统的新技术使陈旧设备不堪重负，并造成了“间歇性”通信和雷达盲区，导致航班停飞超过四个小时。
Trump administration officials said new technology being added to the nation’s air traffic control system overloaded antiquated equipment and caused “intermittent” communications and radar gaps, leading to the flight shutdown of more than four hours.A limited number of domestic flights departed after the stop was lifted around 8:15 p.m. ET.
停飞令于东部时间晚上8点15分左右解除后，有数量有限的国内航班起飞。但影响可能会持续数天，官员表示，该系统预计将在感恩节出行高峰到来前恢复正常运行。这是自2023年1月以来全国范围内首次实施停飞，当时另一个向飞行员发送通知的联邦航空管理局关键计算机系统发生故障；这也是自2001年9月11日恐怖袭击以来的第二次全国停飞。
But the effects could be felt for days, with officials saying the system is likely to be operating normally in time to handle the Thanksgiving travel rush. The nationwide stop was the first since January 2023, when another key FAA computer system that sends notices to pilots malfunctioned, and the second since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
埃米莉·布朗（Emily Brown）和她14岁的女儿周五在达拉斯机场等待飞往俄亥俄州哥伦布市的航班四个多小时后，最终选择放弃。她们此行是为了给女儿最好的朋友一个惊喜。布朗说，相反，她不得不隔着机场的泪水给朋友打电话。
布朗说：“她存钱买了自己的机票，并且筹划了整个周末。现在我们不确定什么时候才能成行。”
Emily Brown and her 14-year-old daughter waited more than four hours Friday at the Dallas airport for their flight to Columbus, Ohio, before giving up. They were traveling to surprise her daughter’s best friend. Instead, she had to settle for phoning the friend through tears in the airport, Brown said.“She saved up her money to buy her own ticket, and she’s planned this whole weekend,” Brown said. “Now we’re not sure when we’re gonna be able to go.”
露丝·科尔斯（Ruth Coles）从新泽西州纽瓦克飞抵洛杉矶国际机场后，被困在飞机上五个多小时。她说，乘客们被告知他们正在等待登机口开放。科尔斯说：“飞行员一直说，他们被告知我们在排队等候。”
Ruth Coles was stuck on her plane for more than five hours after landing at Los Angeles International Airport from Newark, New Jersey. She said the passengers were told they were waiting for a gate to open.“The pilot keeps saying they are telling him we are next in line,” Coles said.
在全美各地的机场，乘客们盯着显示延误的屏幕，或者匆忙寻找前往目的地的巴士或火车。一些人通过唱起歌来打发时间。
Thousands of flights delayed and canceledAt airports across the U.S., passengers stared at screens showing delays or rushed to find buses or trains to their destinations. Some passed the time by breaking out in song.
原定于本周末比赛的体育队伍调整了比赛开始时间、寻找酒店房间、重新安排航班并包了大巴。
Sports teams scheduled to play this weekend adjusted game start times, searched for hotel rooms, rescheduled flights and chartered buses.
奥本大学的橄榄球队选择乘大巴前往密西西比州立大学，周六的开球时间从东部时间中午推迟到下午4点15分。受停飞影响的其他大学还包括贝勒大学、华盛顿大学、堪萨斯州立大学、明尼苏达州立大学以及排名第19位的密苏里大学奥勒密分校，该校原本计划直到周六早晨才飞往俄克拉荷马州进行比赛。
Auburn University's football team opted to take a bus to Mississippi State and the Saturday start time was pushed from noon ET to 4:15 p.m. Other universities affected by the stoppage included Baylor, Washington, Kansas State, Minnesota and No. 19 Ole Miss, which did not plan to fly until Saturday morning for its game against Oklahoma.
交通部长肖恩·达菲（Sean Duffy）鼓励NCAA橄榄球队与联邦航空管理局联系，以便该机构能够优先安排周六比赛的航班。
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy encouraged NCAA football teams to reach out to the FAA so the agency can prioritize flights for Saturday games.
根据追踪航班中断情况的网站FlightAware的数据，周美全美有超过2500架次航班被取消，数千架次航班延误。
More than 2,500 flights were canceled in the U.S. Saturday and hundreds more were delayed, according to FlightAware, a website that tracks flight disruptions.
科尔宾·瓦舍尔（Corbyn Wascher）周五在迈阿密参加完会议后，在飞回伊利诺伊州莫林的途中，其航班在夏洛特道格拉斯国际机场的停机坪上停留了四个小时。他说，美国航空公司的飞机上每个人都很客气，大家一边聊天一边舒展筋骨，乘务员则分发了水、普雷茨尔饼干和意大利脆饼点心。
Corbyn Wascher's flight was on the tarmac at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport for four hours Friday on his way home to Moline, Illinois, from a conference in Miami. Everyone was cordial on the American Airlines plane as they talked and stretched their legs and the flight attendants handed out water, pretzels and biscotti snacks, he said.“The stewardesses were amazing. You could tell that they were pretty stressed out,” said the 37-year-old high school teacher, who took a $100 uber to a hotel 25 minutes from the airport after he was unable to find new flights.
这位37岁的高中教师说：“空姐们太棒了。看得出来她们压力相当大。”在无法找到新航班后，他花100美元坐优步去了一家距离机场25分钟路程的酒店。他原本预订了周六下午飞往芝加哥奥黑尔国际机场的航班。
He was scheduled for a Saturday afternoon flight to Chicago O’Hare International Airport.
国土安全部长马克韦恩·穆林（Markwayne Mullin）在白宫对记者表示，随着周五3000多架次航班安全降落，没有人处于任何危险之中。
Officials say no one was in danger during ground stopSecretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin told reporters at the White House that no one was in any danger as more than 3,000 flights were safely landed Friday.
达菲指责国会未能批准更多用于新技术的资金，同时淡化了试图实施新的修复措施导致系统过载的事实。他暗示可能会发生更多的中断。
他说：“我们没想到会出现这种故障。但确实发生了。我们能够审查哪里出了问题，然后重启系统并继续。但是，你们还会遇到更多此类情况。”
Duffy blamed Congress for failing to approve more funding for new technology, while downplaying the fact that trying to implement new fixes overtaxed the system. He suggested more disruptions might occur.“We didn’t think we would have this kind of outage. We did,” he said. “We were able to review what went wrong, and then reboot the system and go. But, you will have more of these.”
达菲表示，这些问题与联邦航空管理局正在推广的、旨在帮助预测空中问题的新人工智能系统无关，因为该系统并未连接到周五发生故障的设备。
达菲说：“这全都是旧的遗留设备。所有部署的新设备都没有瘫痪。”
Duffy said the problems were not linked to the FAA’s new AI-powered system the agency is rolling out to help predict problems in the sky because that isn’t connected to Friday's failure.“This is all the old legacy equipment. All of the new equipment that’s been deployed did not go down,” Duffy said.
联邦航空管理局已经用光纤线路替换了数千根旧铜线，并升级了数百个无线电系统。这是去年在国会批准125亿美元资金后开始的大修工程的一部分。达菲和白宫正在争取追加300亿美元以完成这项工作。
The FAA has already replaced thousands of old copper wires with fiber optic lines and upgraded hundreds of radio systems as part of the overhaul that began last year after Congress approved $12.5 billion of funding. Duffy and the White House are pushing for $30 billion more to complete the work.
这个问题看起来类似于9月份发生的区域空中交通管制通信中断，当时该事故导致东北部数百架次航班陷入混乱，尽管那次中断是由施工人员切断光纤线路引起的。老旧设备也被归咎于去年导致纽瓦克机场陷入混乱的短暂雷达故障。
Past problems have been linked to equipment failuresThe problem appeared similar to a regional air traffic control communication outage in September that snarled hundreds of flights across the Northeast, although that disruption was linked to a construction crew cutting a fiber optic line. Aging equipment was also blamed for the brief radar outages last year that disrupted Newark airport.
航空安全专家史蒂夫·阿罗约（Steve Arroyo）表示，这一次的不同之处在于，它发生在全国范围内，导致管制员无法与飞行员进行可靠的通话。
曾任美国航空公司飞行员的阿罗约说：“如果你没有这种能力，无论是由于他们拥有的旧电线已经磨损还是出于任何其他原因，你都必须让飞机停在地面上，而不能让它们飞上天空，因为那样会冒无法与它们通信的风险。”
Aviation safety expert Steve Arroyo said the difference this time is it happened on a nationwide scale that left controllers unable to reliably talk to pilots.“If you don’t have that ability, whether it’s because the old wires that they have are just run down or for whatever reason, you’ve got to stop airplanes on the ground and not put them in the air, where you’re going to risk not being able to communicate with them,” said Arroyo, a former United Airlines pilot.
阿罗约说，周五的地面停飞也不同于9·11事件后的停飞，因为当时并没有指示飞机立即降落，并且飞行员很可能能够与机场的地面管制员进行通信。
Friday’s ground stop also was different from the one after 9/11 because planes were not being told to land immediately and pilots likely were able to communicate with ground controllers at airports, Arroyo said.