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Hey Claude, is runway 5 free?
OMG, people are going to die because of this.
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Flight crews over the US flying on instruments
Surely you cant be serious
I am serious. And stop calling me Shirley.
What’s happening now • Nationwide ground stop: All flight departures in the United States have been halted after a major telecommunications outage posed safety concerns, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The issue stems from a problem with network routers that cascaded nationwide, an airline source told CNN.
• Travel nightmare: Airlines and passengers are figuring out their next steps as thousands of flights are delayed or canceled. The number of impacted trips has surged as the hours-long ground stop continues.
• No timetable for resolution: Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin warned that there’s no known time frame for resolving the issue and that he expects an extended process.
• No known threat: Mullin said the ground stop did not stem from a threat to the US and was not linked to this week’s disruptive Microsoft outage. Preliminary reports indicate this was not a cyberattack, law enforcement sources told CNN. President Donald Trump has been briefed.
I hope every flight attendant and pilot remembers to thank the passengers for flying Trump air
How did Flavor Flave seem to know before everybody else?
He requested it, and FAA had no choice but to shut things down
In addition to his other duties, Flavor Flav is also official timekeeper for the FAA. He keeps all the clocks synced in the nation's air traffic control towers. He just had a sick day today.
What else do you think the clock was for?
At work we use rubidium-87 clocks synced against GPS for highly accurate time keeping. GPS satellites sync their time against Flav.
The clock on his chest proves he don't fess.
He's clocker rockin, rockin with the best.
He is the time master and thus in charge of scheduling, is he not? That's why he has that giant clock around his neck.
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Did they lose the floppy disc?
Did the FAA ask its new AI to "safely bring back online the Air Route Traffic Control Centers without breaking anything else. Make no mistakes!" ?
Some plane was doing a holding pattern over one airport and the AI mistook it for boobs and refused to go any further because AIs are programmed to be puritanical prudes.
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They just upgraded from floppy drives. My money is on them letting a virus into the system, or that the new system had major security problems.
https://www.techspot.com/news/114471-almost-2027-faa-finally-replacing-floppy-disks-used.html
"The FAA wants E-IDS installed at 435 facilities by the end of 2028. Five sites have already replaced their floppy disk-based systems: Atlantic City International Airport, Nashville International Airport, Greater Rochester International Airport, and data processing hubs in Atlanta and Salt Lake City"
Edit: it looks like they also just started expanding and AI traffic management system nationwide.
https://avweb.com/aviation-news/faa-expands-ai-assisted-traffic-management/
Some piece of data for Delta didn’t go through Atlanta and the whole thing panicked.
No. It's even worse than that: A box truck containing Pepsi products was caught delivering to a vendor in ATL!
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Is the FAA using Starshield for their communication?
Plus, weren't a lot of them fired during the doge shit?
I believe most quit due to not wanting to do the stressful job without pay during financial shutdowns, but either way yeah there's way fewer
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A world leader amirite?
Uh, holy shit.
I'm pretty sure the last time this happened was 9/11, right?
There was a 90 minute ground halt in 2023 because of a fuck up. They also closed down the airspace around El Paso in 2025 because of a fuckup involving idiot admin officials playing with a military laser. So I'm gonna guess this is either something really fucking scary or really fucking stupid.
So I'm gonna guess this is either something really fucking scary or really fucking stupid.
I say it's both
2023, but otherwise yes
I wonder what type of extraterrestrial invader the conspiracy people will blame it on.
My sincere fear with this is that it means Trump is about to launch a colossal attack on Iran that he knows will result in retaliation that will, in fact, harm Americans domestically and significantly so.
I'm so tired of this demented pedophile sack of shit and the limp dick Dems who refuse to resist him.
While I agree that some current Dems are weak-ass bitches, Repugnicans still control Every-fucking-thing until January. This also smacks of technology-based incompetence...which points to a failure due to low IQ Repugnican policies. While some current Dems are also incompetent, let's blame the party currently controlling the entire government, since Dems are basically held down to writing "strongly" worded letters. Painting this on Repugnicans also has the side effect of warning the Dems that they will be under the same public oversight come January 3rd, 2027. After that, we can totally point out their failures, since they will have almost zero excuses, other than "the President vectors everything we pass."
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Supposedly it's due to radio equipment issues.
Nationwide Radio Issues? They use radio because it's not subject to that kind of problem.
If transceivers go down at a major airport, that can bork the rest of the country pretty quickly. I heard the problem was at ORD, but I'm not 100% sure on that.
If trancievers go down at one airport it messed with the other airports in the area that need to take up the slack/landings.
That's never been an ok shit shut down the nation event before
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