West Coast Airport Flights Halted on North Korea’s Missile
- Ground stop at West Coast facilities a ‘precaution,’ FAA says
- North Korea missile reached almost 10 times speed of sound
A man walks past a television showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on Jan. 11.
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Flights out of some airports on the U.S. West Coast were briefly halted by aviation regulators as a precaution on Monday after North Korea launched a high-speed missile in a test.
The so-called ground stop, which paused departures from an unspecified number of airports, lasted less than 15 minutes.