FAA issues nationwide ground stop due to "extraordinary circumstances" (axios.com)
98 points by owenshen24 3 hours ago
andrewgioia 3 hours ago
Does anyone have any insight on this? Currently at LGA and they’re continuing boarding procedures, but they’re not giving us any updates otherwise.
abnry 3 hours ago
Radar outage:
1970-01-01 2 hours ago
A national radar outage would do it. This would be a bigger story. Everyone needs it to forecast. However it doesn't seem to actually be offline. So I don't think it was a very long outage if it did go down.
gscott 2 hours ago
ddtaylor 2 hours ago
Aperocky 2 hours ago
O5vYtytb 2 hours ago
I can still access NOAA radars just fine.
micah94 2 hours ago
Homeland Security saying "telecommunications" outage. But nothing more at this point...
tosapple an hour ago
microsoft yesterday, funny.
latentsea 31 minutes ago
jmclnx 2 hours ago
I think I remember seeing an article here about air traffic controller systems moving off of 3.5" diskettes. Related ?
neko_ranger 2 hours ago
"upgrade to cds. make no mistakes"
gosub100 2 hours ago
No, my guess is cyber attack from a state we've been making false accusations against.
junga 2 hours ago
GolfPopper 37 minutes ago
ashdksnndck 2 hours ago
United857 2 hours ago
Is this the first such case since 9/11?
dole 2 hours ago
No.
"January 11, 2023. All U.S. departing flights were halted for several hours after a computer outage crashed the FAA's Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) pilot notification system"
9/11, 2023 and today are the only three times.
Jtsummers 2 hours ago
9/11 was different, that also required all planes to land, more or less, as quickly as possible and not continue to their destinations (unless that was timely, I suppose). This one is a departure ground stop, no more planes going up. Planes in the air haven't been ordered to land yet.
KPGv2 2 hours ago
no, there was one in 2023 when a pilot notification system went down
RickJWagner 30 minutes ago
First, the Microsoft outage. Now this.
Extraordinary.
ranger_danger an hour ago
Could this be related to what caused Outlook to go down?
ChrisArchitect 2 hours ago
Some more discussion on source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50489641
jmclnx 2 hours ago
promptsupporter 3 hours ago
Something with frequency of ATC signals?
dmitrygr 2 hours ago
earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50489641