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FAA issues nationwide ground stop due to "extraordinary circumstances"

68 points owenshen24 38 minutes ago 19 comments

andrewgioia 36 minutes ago | parent

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 34 minutes ago | parent

Radar outage:

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

1970-01-01 20 minutes ago | parent

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.

ddtaylor 18 minutes ago | parent

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

1970-01-01 16 minutes ago | parent

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

Aperocky 7 minutes ago | parent

weather radar still works for weather channels..

jmclnx 28 minutes ago | parent

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

neko_ranger 26 minutes ago | parent

"upgrade to cds. make no mistakes"

gosub100 21 minutes ago | parent

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

junga 15 minutes ago | parent

Which one?

ashdksnndck 14 minutes ago | parent

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"?

promptsupporter 34 minutes ago | parent

Something with frequency of ATC signals?

ChrisArchitect 25 minutes ago | parent

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

United857 25 minutes ago | parent

Is this the first such case since 9/11?

KPGv2 23 minutes ago | parent

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

dole 22 minutes ago | parent

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 22 minutes ago | parent

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.

dmitrygr 22 minutes ago | parent

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