A map shows what it looked like since the paralysis of airports throughout the US: hundreds of planes are 'disappearing'

The collapse of air traffic in the United States, which was paralyzed throughout the country for more than four hours due to a communications problem, has caused chaos within and outside US borders. The Trump Government, which has ruled out a cyber attack, has attributed this failure to the obsolescence of air communications systems.

More than 3,500 aircraft were in the air when the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ordered to stop aircraft takeoffs at all airports in the country due to instability in radars and communications. "We had more than 3,500 aircraft in the air. They all participated in the maneuver (...) and we managed it with our usual procedures for this type of incident," said the US Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy.

An infographic published by the American network CBS shows precisely the moment in which the suspension of flights in the United States is announced and how the planes disappear from American airspace as the minutes go by.

The map collects satellite data that recorded air traffic before, during and after that warning, which forced the planes that were flying at that time to land.

As detailed by CBS, the stoppage of the planes began around 3:54 p.m. on Friday, local time on the east coast of the United States (9:54 p.m., Spanish peninsular time) and ended around 8:15 p.m. (2:15 a.m. this Saturday, Spanish peninsular time).

More than 6,600 flights were canceled in the US during the time the takeoff suspension lasted, but these alterations due to the accumulation of incidents will extend to the entire weekend, with some 1,500 cancellations planned for this Saturday.