Will the FAA's nationwide ground stop be lifted by November 13, 8:00 PM ET? Forecast says no

The Federal Aviation Administration issued its nationwide ground stop at 3:54 p.m. ET on Friday, 13 November. The alert said only that all departing traffic should remain ground stopped until further notice. It gave no restart time. Later reporting, around 5:20 p.m. ET, still described the stop as in force. The agency said traffic "should remain ground stopped until further notice" and that international flights would be handled case by case. No official lifting appears in the record. That absence is the main reason the forecast leans toward the stop still being in place at 8:00 PM ET on 13 November. The cause is a communications problem affecting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers, according to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. He said FAA technicians are investigating. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said there was "no indication as of yet" of anything nefarious and called it a telecommunications outage. That points to a fixable fault, so a quick repair is plausible. Reports also indicate some communication with aircraft remains. But a fault that reaches every center has to be diagnosed, cleared as safe and then announced nationwide, all before the cutoff. Investigation alone is not a release. A qualifying outcome needs an official FAA or Transportation Department statement that the all-airports stop is no longer in effect. The thing to watch is any FAA notice that replaces the blanket order with narrower restrictions or sets an effective restart time.