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Posted by defly 2 hours ago

All US airports are currently ground stopped(twitter.com)
135 points | 29 comments
stmw 2 hours ago|
Pilot forum discussion - https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/674910-us-wide-ground-st...
AstroNutt 34 minutes ago||
Thanks for the link. I clicked it and was greeted with this. LOL!

"It seems the shiny new AI tech tool Strategic Management of Airspace Routing Trajectories (SMART) may have become Failed Airspace Routing Trajectories (FART)"

frutiger 2 hours ago||
"Frequency outage", I think that translates to radio communications not working, until "22 Zulu" aka 22:00 UTC, 5 PM ET.
lenerdenator 2 hours ago|
How does one prevent transmission on a frequency in an area the size of the continental US?

It's radio. Either you jam it or it works. That's the selling point.

NordSteve 2 hours ago||
It's not the transmitting per-se. The network that gives controllers access to the en route radio system isn't letting them connect to the radios.
DavCreator 2 hours ago||
https://xnotme.com/flightradar24/status/2121347654714077605
treebeard901 2 hours ago||
Microsoft outage related??
whynotmaybe 1 hour ago||
I can easily imagine a batch job on a mainframe that sends every hour some important data by mail and that some logic apps checks that mailbox to propagate the data but now that mails have been delayed +12hours it's going haywire
PsycorAI 2 hours ago||
good question
datas 2 hours ago||
What are all the possible reasons to do this?

Has this ever happened?

tencentshill 2 hours ago||
A credible threat from Iran? More likely a technical issue.

Happened in 2023 https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-notam-statement

ceejayoz 2 hours ago|||
Jan 2023 was the most recent nationwide one.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/11/faa-orders-airlines-to-pause...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_FAA_system_outage

NooneAtAll5 1 hour ago|||
previous time it happened right before chinese baloon made the news

it may be something similar - remove all random, but controllable sources of radar return for military to start scanning

lobf 2 hours ago||
It happened on 9/11, didn’t it?
stmw 2 hours ago||
yes, 9/11
Jtsummers 2 hours ago||
And in 2023, which was more similar to this. This is a departure stop, planes in the air are still heading towards their destinations. This is not the same as 9/11 where flights were redirected to their nearest airports for immediate landings.
throwaway81523 32 minutes ago||
"If builders built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization" -- Gerald Weinberg.

Looks like the woodpecker has arrived.

elendilm 20 minutes ago|
I disagree vehemently that programmers build lousy programs. Many of us do quite the contrary.

But this is hilarious, and hence I am upvoting.

cobychapple 2 hours ago||
Looks lifted now. https://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_otherdis?adv_date=11132026&a... https://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_otherdis?adv_date=11132026&a...
brianshaler 2 hours ago|
If you refresh a few times it'll show the advisories.
ChrisArchitect 2 hours ago||
Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50489641
razor-thin 1 hour ago|
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fhdkweig 1 hour ago|||
Why? I came into this thread just to make sure someone posted that link. I hate when the discussion gets fragmented across several different posts.
seviu 1 hour ago||||
+1 ban it and with it the 30k+ Karma it has
cactusplant7374 1 hour ago|||
Dang does that too. I guess we are going to have to ban him as well.
pstuart 2 hours ago||
I guess some of their floppy drives must have given out.
10111001 40 minutes ago|
> I guess some of their floppy drives must have given out.

More likely: the reengineered system has a serious bug.

deadbabe 22 minutes ago|
This has been a horrible week for AI: Jensen resigned, Microsoft Outage, now FAA outage from new AI system.

The reason is clear: all this points to the ANT ipo next week, people want to pop the AI bubble.

afavour 13 minutes ago||
1. There’s no proof yet that this is AI related

2. The idea that someone would ground all air traffic in order to disrupt Anthropic’s IPO is an absolutely wild conspiracy theory with no basis in reality

mcdonje 12 minutes ago||
What a cope. Per occam's razor, the most likely cause is putting hallucinations on the critical path. But sure, peddle a conspiracy theory.