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FAA issues nationwide ground stop due to "extraordinary circumstances"

103 points by owenshen24 3 hours ago | 28 comments

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:

https://www.weather.gov/afc/radaroutage

1970-01-01 3 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 3 hours ago

The floppy disk upgrade went wrong

ddtaylor 3 hours ago

How do a bunch of separate radars all go down at the same time? Aren't they spread around the US?

1970-01-01 3 hours ago

I'm thinking it was "the website went down" issue.

Aperocky 3 hours ago

weather radar still works for weather channels..

O5vYtytb 3 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 2 hours ago

microsoft yesterday, funny.

latentsea 53 minutes ago

Jensen the day before that, funny.

jmclnx 3 hours ago

I think I remember seeing an article here about air traffic controller systems moving off of 3.5" diskettes. Related ?

neko_ranger 3 hours ago

"upgrade to cds. make no mistakes"

gosub100 3 hours ago

No, my guess is cyber attack from a state we've been making false accusations against.

junga 3 hours ago

Which one?

majorchord 2 hours ago

Too many enemies to guess at this point

GolfPopper 59 minutes ago

So, "We have met the enemy and he is us?"

ashdksnndck 3 hours ago

Can you fill in the blanks here? My attempt: "China would never spy on us, but because of the implication they would put 50k of our citizens currently in the air in mortal danger"?

United857 3 hours ago

Is this the first such case since 9/11?

dole 3 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 3 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 3 hours ago

no, there was one in 2023 when a pilot notification system went down

ranger_danger 2 hours ago

Could this be related to what caused Outlook to go down?

RickJWagner 52 minutes ago

First, the Microsoft outage. Now this.

Extraordinary.

ChrisArchitect 3 hours ago

Some more discussion on source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50489641

promptsupporter 3 hours ago

Something with frequency of ATC signals?

jmclnx 3 hours ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50489641

dmitrygr 3 hours ago

earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50489641

teddy2000 2 hours ago

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