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As of thirty-ish minutes ago ALL commercial air traffic in the US is grounded until further notice.

Anyone got any idea what’s going on? There are very free details about the situation I can find online right now.

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[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 17 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 31 minutes ago) (1 children)

My brother is an ATC. He didn'y have any more info yet, but I'll update this comment when he knows more.

Edit: Just had dinner with him and he didn't have any official info. He did say that

  1. He didn't buy the official story of there being a communication issue between airports. It just doesn't make sense based on how those communications networks function (sorry wish I had more detail here. he went into copper wire laid in the 1960s and how it's different than just the public Internet.) But they wouldn't ground crop dusters and planes flying VFR out of small airports if it were a communication issue.

  2. The AI rollout that has been in the news also very likely has nothing to do with it. Absolutely NO controllers have been breifed on any new systems, so it's likely just something to grab a headline from the Trump administration.

It was his day off but his work called twice while we were at dinner trying to get him to come in.

[–] robert@piefed.ca 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 32 minutes ago

Just posted an edit. Sorry it's not much.