FAA issues national ground stop

Posted by zulln 5 hours ago

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Havoc 4 hours ago||

Homeland security secretary says "telecommunication outage".

...so at least it's not something 911-ish

Eji1700 4 hours ago||

Somewhere is someone who works for ATC IT who was giving an MS IT friend shit last night.

ck2 4 hours ago||

yesterday Thursday November 12

> "FAA expands AI advice to manage air traffic congestion across entire US airspace"

* https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/11/faa-expands-ai-advice-to-...

> "FAA Is Rolling Out Its AI Air Traffic Tool Nationwide"

* https://gizmodo.com/the-faa-is-rolling-out-its-ai-air-traffi...

ssttoo 3 hours ago||

And now Canada is offline too (our LAX pilot said)

ssttoo 3 hours ago||

Update from our pilot: some flights do take off from Canada so not quite clear yet.

Also he says he saw a plane taking off LAX so fingers crossed. Still no news though

ssttoo 3 hours ago||

Update from our pilot: west coast flights can fly west, east coast can fly east. Basically NOT over continental US

infamouscow 3 hours ago||

Anthropic IPO just around the corner...

VCFundedGenYer 3 hours ago||

My guess is a dopey AI rollout caused it: https://arstechnica.com/features/2026/11/faa-expands-ai-advi...

bijowo1676 4 hours ago||

how the hell the FAA's systems dont have double or triple redundancy just like Airplanes are required to ?

thoughtpeddler 3 hours ago|

who said they don't, and those didn't work or don't apply in this situation?

bijowo1676 3 hours ago||

do you really have redundancy, if your 2nd system didnt work ?

newspaper1 4 hours ago|

They’re going to blame this on Iran, aren’t they?

This also happened on 9/11 which is curious because the NVIDIA thing caused a public rift with Lutnick yesterday:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/bessent-blames-lutnick...

ericmay 4 hours ago|

No, please stop engaging in baseless and pointless speculation. If the US wants to bomb Iran it doesn’t need more reasoning than it has already used to already do what it has done.

newspaper1 3 hours ago||

If you haven’t noticed the Iran war is universally unpopular. They actually do need to fabricate a reason to continue.

ericmay 3 hours ago|||

No they don’t - popularity isn’t all that relevant. The president can just order strikes tomorrow.

Besides popularity isn’t the determination of whether something is a good idea or not. The Korean War for example was very unpopular yet it was the right and smart thing to do.

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