Ground stop at CHO (CHO), Oct 17, 2026

EndedDisabled aircraft on runway halts departures from Charleston airport

Started: Sat, Oct 17, 6:50 PM UTC18:50 UTC
Ended: Sat, Oct 17, 6:57 PM UTC18:57 UTC
Duration: 7 min
Cause: disabled aircraft on the runway

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What happened

AI-written · may contain mistakes. Written from the advisory text and weather only.

Cause: An aircraft broke down and stopped on the airport's only runway, so air traffic control held departing flights until it could be cleared.

The ground stop began at 18:50 UTC and was scheduled to run until 3:45 pm EDT, with departures from six air traffic control centers held. It ended at 18:57 UTC, after 7 minutes, so it was not extended.

Impact by airline

No airline data was collected for this ground stop.

Airline numbers appear after the first sample, within about 20 minutes of the start.

Impact by region

Air traffic control centers whose departures to the airport were held.

Center	Status
ZTL	Held
ZDC	Held
ZNY	Held
ZOB	Held
ZBW	Held
ZID	Held

Timeline

Every change published while the ground stop was in effect, as seen each minute.

Oct 17, 6:50 PM UTC
Ground stop issued at CHO for disabled aircraft on the runway, until 3:45 pm EDT. Departures held from ZTL, ZDC, ZNY, ZOB and 2 more.
Oct 17, 6:57 PM UTC
Ground stop ended after 7 min.

Advisories

The air traffic control advisories issued for this ground stop, as published.

ATCSCC ADVZY 096 CHO/ZDC 10/17/2026 CDM GROUND STOP

CTL ELEMENT: CHO
ELEMENT TYPE: APT
ADL TIME: 1846Z
GROUND STOP PERIOD: 17/1831Z - 17/1945Z
DEP FACILITIES INCLUDED: (Manual) ZTL ZDC ZNY ZOB ZBW ZID
PREVIOUS TOTAL, MAXIMUM, AVERAGE DELAYS: 0 / 0 / 0
NEW TOTAL, MAXIMUM, AVERAGE DELAYS: 74 / 35 / 25
PROBABILITY OF EXTENSION: MEDIUM
IMPACTING CONDITION: RWY-TAXI / DISABLED AIRCRAFT
COMMENTS: DISABLED A/C ON ONLY RWY, 03/21. TIMELINE FOR A/C REMOVAL
 AND RWY RETURN TO SERVICE NOT YET ESTABLISHED.

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How it is measured

Status, timeline, cause and held centers: the national airspace status feed, checked every minute, and the air traffic control advisories it links to.
Delays by airline and region: departures and arrivals at CHO 30 or more minutes late, by their estimated delay against the schedule, sampled every 10 minutes while the stop is active and once more after it ends.
Totals and cancellations: arrival and departure boards for CHO, every 30 minutes while active and once more after the end. Delayed means 15 or more minutes late at CHO; cancelled is the airline's cancelled status; codeshares count once. Flights scheduled from the start until an hour after the end are counted.
Held at origin: the same arrivals boards, which carry each flight's scheduled and actual departure from its origin. A flight is held when it is still scheduled, not departed, 15 or more minutes past its scheduled departure at a sample taken during the stop. In scope: its origin is in a held center or listed facility; flights from elsewhere are late for other reasons.
Inbound in the air: the same arrivals boards. At each board taken during the stop, a flight to CHO is in the air when it has departed (en route, or with an actual departure time) and not landed, cancelled or diverted; one still shown in the air over an hour past its arrival estimate, or departed more than 18 hours earlier, is treated as stale and left out.
Diversions: an inbound flight marked diverted during the stop or the wrap-up after it (not one marked before it could have departed), or one still shown in the air 30+ minutes past its arrival estimate that ADS-B (by its ICAO call sign) then found on the ground at another airport, not its origin. The diversion airport is the airport ADS-B found it at, else the updated destination. Cancellations never count. Regional flights flown under another call sign can't be found on ADS-B, so their diversion airport may be unknown.
Aircraft on the ground and holding: ADS-B positions around CHO, every 5 minutes; the airline is read from the call sign. Holding counts airline flights only (passenger, regional and cargo), not private, military or medical flights.
Weather: METARs, SIGMETs and weather alerts.
News: headline links filtered to this airport and these days; we show titles and links only.

Data sources are listed on the credits page.