Speculation is rampant. FAA provides no details. 10,000 flights delayed or cancelled.
Nationwide Ground Stop
The New York Times reports Live Updates: F.A.A. Declares a Rare Nationwide Ground Stop Note: the NYT now offers unlimited free links up from 10 per month so I will pass them on.
The Federal Aviation Administration announced a rare nationwide ground stop on Friday afternoon, in what appeared to be a major outage affecting its air traffic control system.
Markwayne Mullin, the secretary of homeland security, blamed the ground stop on a telecommunication outage but said Trump administration officials did not know the cause, adding that it would take an extended period of time to fix the issues. “This isn’t going to just be resolved and turned around within the hour,” he said. “This is going to take some time.”
Sean Duffy, the secretary of transportation, confirmed the outage in a social media post, citing “a communication issue impacting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers.”
“FAA technicians are investigating the issue,” he added. “We will provide immediate updates as we have them.”
“All departing traffic should remain ground stopped until further notice,” the official advisory read, adding that the landings of inbound international flights would be managed on a case-by-case basis.
Shortly after the advisory was posted, an F.A.A. website that lists air traffic control system notices appeared to have gone down, erasing dozens of notices that previously had been listed.
More than 2 million people pass through airport security checkpoints on a typical day, according to Transportation Security Administration data. On Thursday, the agency screened nearly 2.5 million people. Amid delays and cancellations on Friday evening, many passengers were taken off flights or told to go home.
According to FlightRadar24, an aviation tracking site, there were more than 1,000 airborne aircraft bound for U.S. airports during the nationwide ground stop. According to the flight tracking app Flighty, there were more than 30,000 departures and arrivals scheduled for the remainder of the day.
At least some of the airborne flights appeared to be landing amid the stoppage. About half an hour after the ground stop was declared, planes could be seen landing at O’Hare International Airport.
But passengers waiting to take off were stuck in limbo.
Friday’s ground stop is only the third such nationwide moratorium on flights in recent history. The F.A.A. issued nationwide ground stops previously on Sept. 11, 2001, in the wake of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York, and on Jan. 11, 2023, due to an outage in the F.A.A.’s system to alert pilots to safety issues.
Weather Reporting Disrupted Too
Humorous Flashback
AI Speculation
NYT: The F.A.A. has been adopting a new A.I. model into its system, and it is unclear if that is part of the problem here.
The last nationwide ground stop came in the early morning of Jan. 11, 2023, and lasted around 90 minutes. The disruption came after a system to alert pilots of real-time dangers went down.
Investigation Guaranteed
Key Points
- The Wall Street Journal reports more than 10,000 flights have been delayed or canceled
- According to the flight tracking app Flighty, there were more than 30,000 departures and arrivals scheduled for the remainder of the day.
- Technically, all we know is there some “communication” issue.
Best wishes to everyone who is stranded.
How Long Will This Go On?
Microsoft Says Don’t Blame Us
We Don’t Call It AI Anymore
Still Down 5:03 PM Mountain and …
The F.A.A. asked Eurocontrol, its European counterpart, to suspend all flights to the United States from 42 European countries, a wide area encompassing Spain, Sweden, Ukraine and Turkey.
This happening on Friday the 13th is no coincidence. My bet is cyber attack . Government will never admit it just like the origin of covid wasn’t from a lab funded by that lying POS Fauci.
Just wait for skynet to take down the internet. But dont worry folks. Corporations can police themselves.
Btw every side programming project of mine Claude has completed, no matter how difficult. I just turned a Bluetooth exercise bike into my controller for VR minecraft.
I have 20 years software development experience. This would have taken me months from scratch. Claude got me up and cycling in 3 days from no bike to successful test ride in game.
It has to become self-aware first. That’s next week.
As I said in the last Mish Post, it’s going to be discovered to be a cyber attack from Iran and not just any cyber attack, but an AI cyber attack facilitated using Chinese AI agents.
Since the election we have.
1) Huang forced out of NVidia. He was the biggest proponent of selling chips to China and for open AI available to anyone. Once the Dems took power that clearly wasn’t going to be allowed so Trump had to throw him under the bus by outing his side piece as a Mata Hari Chinese spy (something the Trump administration has known about for roughly a year or when it started).
2) A massive cyber attack in Europe on freezers spoiling meat in a lot of grocery stores. Europe already calling it Iranian.
3) A potential massive cyber attack in America on the FAA that doesn’t cause any planes to crash.
You’ll note that 2 and 3 didn’t actually kill anyone but definitely makes the public aware of what AI cyber attacks by rogue people / countries can do.
This gives the Dems who have a hard on for AI / data centers the ammunition they need to fully close down data centers. More importantly they’ll also use this to regulate AI such that it’s not allowed in the hand of people like us (too dangerous you see) so it will be government only.
In return for that and Huang being ousted (who would have defended against AI regulation and kept selling to China), Iran is blamed so Trump will be given a hand to avenge this attack by making further attacks on Iran (pleasing Israel of course too since both parties are beholden there). This is what’s known as bipartisan politics.
As for Huang, he’ll go in front of congress all contrite about things. He’ll act contrite about selling to China and change his mind about open AI to anyone. He’ll of course claim his Mata Hari influenced his position the last year or so on selling to China and open AI to everyone and he regrets that. Because he has Mata Hari as a scapegoat he’ll walk and keep his billions as he plays the patsy role. Might have to do a stint on Oprah’s couch apologizing to his wife for the affair.
Or it could be the AI the FAA stated using yesterday 🤷🏻♂️
i like how you think. probably close to the truth. or perhaps it’s just the russians and persians are both sick of usa CIA assasinating and murdering their people………
Or is Israel behind this, since they lost the election in both countries. Keep the bombing going or else. Bibi(who could be tried and jailed for corruption charges) has been hassling Trump to finish the job, which will bode poorly for all of us. Or is Trump taking a cue from Bibi and becoming a perma war president with a war cabinet
Would not be surprised if its an extension of the war in iran or ukraine. There were several very large hacks last week or so. One was commercial fridges in the uk cant recall the other. Since were in a economic war these days. Maybe its expanded from oil.
our cabinet secretaries all living on military bases too. must be credible chatter of payback for usa targeting iranian leaders and/or russian assets………..i think the palestinians are too weak.
Are they hiding from Iran or from us citizens.
both.
in world history for the past thousands of years, one can tell how evil a nation or king or emperor or fuhrer….. is by how many guards they need. the usa president needs an army to travel in the world.
We will never know if it was AI because if it was Wall Street would be very unhappy. Who is the scapegoat going to be?
Damn Illegal immigrants struck again!
They were chewing the wires I’m told. You know you can trust a man like Markwayne (what an idiotic name) to get to the bottom of it though!
It’s those feral cats & dogs in Springfield that didn’t get eaten, I’m sure of it.
Back up running as of 6PM EST. Planes departing now.
CNN says still down……7minutes ago. got it off google news
Still down. A select few flights to Europe were allowed for unknown reasons
probably just the bin laden family. will the saudi king walk in the rose gardern with trump like old times with georgie boy a quarter century ago. i knew 9.11.01 was an inside job that morning. so obvious.
AK and HI ok, flights from San Fran to East Pacific leaving. The federal agencies involved are 😧😬😚😴
Very very down
What a 💩 hole country.
That can’t be. Everyone else is the shithole country and we are great again. I’m not tired of winning, are you?