Thread theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLHCm7e0uBg> https://abcnews.com/US/nationwide-ground-stop-ordered-airports-faa/story?id=138121848The Federal Aviation Administration ordered a nationwide ground stop Friday for all airports due to a communication issue affecting air traffic control.The agency's alert said the stop was "due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety."Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in an X statement a short while later that the stop was "due a communication issue impacting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers.""FAA technicians are investigating the issue," he said in an X post.This is the second time since Sept. 11, 2001, that the FAA has ordered a nationwide ground stop. The last time was in 2023, when the FAA NOTAM system went down and pilots could not get their pre-departure paperwork.Air Route Traffic Control Centers are responsible for all flights above 18,000 feet. There are 22 of those centers in the U.S.Pilots who are in the air have flight plans and are prepared to continue with their flight path in case of such an emergency, according to ABC News contributor John Nance."All pilots in that environment know what to do," Nance told ABC News on Friday."It is a matter of predictability. Air Traffic Control knows that airplane is going to come out of the sky at some point of time looking for a pathway," he later added.Earlier in the afternoon, the FAA issued a ground stop at both Chicago's O'Hare and Midway airports due to equipment outage.>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
>>1548065>Microsoft down>planes groundedIt’s happening, isn’t it?
Fuck meI got stuck at CLT overnight when Crowdstrike shat the bed in 2024I drive everywhere in the continental United States now, fuck that shit
>>1548066No. Nothing ever happens.
>>1548066Who would win>the combined firepower of the strongest nation in historyOR>a microsoft employee working out of an open air cybercafe in New Delhi
>>1548066It's an ATC comms outage, nothing to do with Microsoft. It's interesting that all 22 ARTCCs went down at the same time AND there's no redundancy, though. That feels like more than just a "telecommunication outage".
>>1548075Anon is probably alluding to the fact that this is a conjunction of multiple catastrophic things happening at once. >This is the second time since Sept. 11, 2001, that the FAA has ordered a nationwide ground stop. The last time was in 2023, when the FAA NOTAM system went down and pilots could not get their pre-departure paperwork.Kinda worrying.
>>1548065Gee the airline traffic is really doing better since DOGE fired all those FAA employees!
National Weather Service just went down too.
The FAA comms and operating systems are generally 30+ years old. ATCT still use floppy discs! They just discontinued that this year. Might as well be using Windows 95-equivalent for their other systems.The plan was to close all regional ARTCCs and automate state-wide hubs instead. This started under Clinton in 1995, and they ran trials in Indy center, which were hilariously bad.They are scavenging parts from smaller airports just to keep things running at bigger airports and centers ... parts from 30-y/o systems.>t. FAA contractor in Ohio for the last 25 years.
>>1548066The title should be>Every Flight Is Grounded on Day Trump Installed AI Controls
>>1548085but that isn't true.
>>1548086>First day trump puts in AI Slop>Everything crashesYou know it's true
>>1548065Ok yes Microsoft accidentally crippled the world, but think how much value they provided shareholders recently At the end of the day the stock market is the only thing that matters
>>1548084This guy knows what he is talking about. Almost everything federal aviation related is hilariously old. I've seen RISC systems running mission critical software as recent as 2016."If it's not broke, we can't afford to fix it anyway." has been federal slogan for the last 30 years.
>>1548065Is it actually related to M$ or is it something else? Maybe a solar flare?
Just take the shinkansen instead
>>1548090spaceweather.gov wasn't predicting anything incoming recently, but you could get even more /x/ about it and point out that the dual venus and mercury retrograde are ending
>>1548091Like that Ukrainian Iryna Zarutska? I think she was taking the train
>>1548090Not actually. Current story is a software update (not microsoft) caused it
EVERYONE TAKE YOUR MONEY OFF THE BANKS RIGHT NOW
>>1548085>>Every Flight Is Grounded on Day Trump Installed AI ControlsTrump cedes the AI race to China for a mere $20 mil bribe, and then uses shitty AI to break American transportImpotent Lame Duck
