The Federal Aviation Administration grounded all flights nationwide for several hours, upending team travel across the United States, according to a wire report from ABC News. The report said sporting events across the country were "slowly returning to normal" after the stop.
A separate report from Fox News, published in its OutKick sports coverage, said the ground stop disrupted weekend sports travel and that millions of people faced "travel chaos." The Fox News summary said NBA and NHL teams, including the Nets and the San Jose Sharks, were stranded during the disruption.
The summary of the Fox News report did not say how long each affected team was delayed, or how many people were ultimately affected beyond the figure of millions it cited. The ABC News summary did not repeat that figure.
The two accounts differ in emphasis. Fox News described teams as stranded and travelers as facing disruption, while ABC News described sporting events as recovering. Neither summary states how many teams were affected beyond the ones Fox News named.
ABC News described the grounding as lasting several hours, a detail the Fox News summary did not repeat. Neither source, as summarized here, explains why the agency halted flights.
Neither summary describes a statement from the Federal Aviation Administration, the leagues, or the affected teams. Based on the available reporting, the sources agree that the grounding disrupted sports travel and that the effects were easing afterward, but they do not provide a full account of the disruption or its causes.
Sources: Fox News: NBA and NHL teams scramble as nationwide FAA ground stop disrupts weekend sports travel; ABC News: US sports scramble back to normal after FAA ground stop upends team travel.