{"id":1207981,"date":"2022-01-11T12:49:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T17:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1207981"},"modified":"2022-01-11T12:49:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T17:49:35","slug":"us-planes-grounded-after-north-korea-launches-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-planes-grounded-after-north-korea-launches-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"US Planes Grounded After North Korea Launches Missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fus-planes-grounded-after-north-korea-launches-missile%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1207981&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Kim-Jong-Un.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Air traffic controllers across the western United States on Monday grounded all planes minutes after North Korea launched a missile.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea at 7:27 a.m. local time fired what was likely a single ballistic missile, according to South Korean officials.<\/p>\n<p>A few minutes later, at 2:30 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, controllers at West Coast airports ordered a &#8220;ground stop,&#8221; which forces all planes flying nearby to land and halts all planes on the tarmacs from taking off. The stop lasted for about seven minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The missile landed in the water off the North Korea coast.<\/p>\n<p>Which agency ordered the ground stop remains a mystery. North American Aerospace Defense Command spokeswoman Pamela Kunze <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/01\/11\/business\/faa-ground-stop-norad-north-korea\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> CNN on Tuesday that the order was not national and that a regional air traffic control facility might have issued the ground stop.<\/p>\n<p>That statement contradicts what airport officials and pilots heard at the time, sources reported.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego International Airport spokeswoman Sabrina LoPiccolo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/faa-grounds-flights-all-us-west-coast-airports-following-apparent-n-korean-missile-test-1667801\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> <i>Newsweek<\/i> that air traffic controllers informed airport officials of a national ground stop order at about 2:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We really don&#8217;t have any more details,&#8221; LoPiccolo said.<\/p>\n<p>CNN reported that an air traffic controller cited &#8220;a national ground stop&#8221; in ordering a Cessna pilot to land.<\/p>\n<p>Some air traffic controllers took to Reddit to express confusion, with one poster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/ATC\/comments\/s0xbvu\/well_that_was_weird\/hs58r9h\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saying<\/a>, &#8220;We haven&#8217;t had a nationwide (or even multi-regional) [ground stop] since 9\/11.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration, which has the power to issue a ground stop, did not respond to media sources&#8217; requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The North Korean missile launch is the second the Communist dictatorship has made in a week. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un this month called for &#8220;bolstering the national defense,&#8221; likely through building missiles, NBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/north-korea-s-kim-jong-un-talks-food-not-nukes-n1286816\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. Kim, who is dealing with an economy crippled by U.S. sanctions and the coronavirus pandemic, has refused to return to peace talks with the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air traffic controllers across the western United States on Monday grounded all planes minutes after North Korea launched a missile. 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