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Posted by zulln 4 hours ago

FAA issues national ground stop(www.nbcnews.com)
https://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_otherdis?adv_date=11132026&a...

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/11/13/us/ground-stop-natio...

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MBCook 2 hours ago|
Think of all those pilots timing out on the tarmac.
bmiekre 3 hours ago||
So we yolo’d a Friday merge & deploy, ‘ay?
robeym 3 hours ago||
Whatever it is, it probably has to do with Jensen Huang
LastTrain 2 hours ago||
There was a time when we'd get clear and honest communication about this but now our admin is Baghdad Bobs all the way down. They will lie about it, even if there is no rational reason to lie about it, because this admin and the movement associated with it wants you eternally guessing what the truth is.
actinium226 4 hours ago||
Wild to see this on adsb.lol, nothing taking off, just some big landing queues
sharmajai 4 hours ago|
This worries me. Do airports have enough parking spots if all planes were to be grounded at the same time?
Jtsummers 4 hours ago||
There's enough space, but not enough gates. If they think the stop may end in a reasonable time some planes will be pulling away from their gates even without a departure time to make room for the landing planes (or rather, they will have missed their departure time and not have a new one). Landing planes will be able to disembark, and probably won't be boarded again until it's resolved and enough departing traffic has cleared that it's obvious that those flights won't be canceled for today as well.

The boarded and grounded planes may start disembarking passengers at some point, especially if their crews are hitting their maximum time before mandatory rest. These delays will probably prevent replacement crews from arriving.

verzali 3 hours ago||
Can't they park the planes on the tarmac and bus the passengers in? If they don't have enough gates?
Jtsummers 3 hours ago||
Yes, and they'll probably do that at some point if they can't get them to the gates. Again, it'll depend on how long this lasts. They will also have to get in more crews to support that since this is not normal and not something they would have planned on in their staffing schedules for a Friday afternoon/evening.
no-dr-onboard 3 hours ago||
Golly, what are the chances that Microsoft is down for a day followed by the ATC comms?

Sure smells like something foreboding

quantum_state 3 hours ago||
It's Friday the 13rd after all ...
micah94 3 hours ago||
Homeland Security saying "Telecommunications" outage. Whatever that means. Listening to a live broadcast NBCNEWS.
bernardv 3 hours ago||
Didn't they just upgrade from a system from DOS?... Maybe the new system wasn't backward compatible :-)
OhMeadhbh 3 hours ago|
I noticed several T-38s flying around. Maybe it's the beginning of a FAA-led coup d' etat.
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