Saturday, November 14, 2026 Vol. I · No. 2
World · Via The Straits Times

‘I don’t know what to do’: student pilot on first solo flight caught in US shutdown

LOS ANGELES, Nov 14 - The student pilot was alone in the cockpit on his first solo cross-country flight when an air traffic controller delivered an instruction he never expected to hear: a nationwide ground stop was in effect and he needed to land.

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