India, Nov. 14 -- Bryan Bedford, the administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, said at a press conference on Saturday afternoon that the nationwide ground stop since Friday afternoon was "for the right reasons." Apologising for the inconvenience travellers faced, Bedford simultaneously ruled out foul play behind the unprecedented outage.

"We see zero evidence of anything nefarious and zero evidence of anything AI-related," Bedford said, adding that passengers whose travel was disrupted by the outage will get a full refund.

Bedford said that the agency's systems remain stable, though there are delays and cancellations that have spilled on to Saturday, as well. He said that between 4,000 and 5,000 scheduled flights on Saturday...