FAA issues national ground stop

Golly, what are the chances that Microsoft is down for a day followed by the ATC comms?

Sure smells like something foreboding

Whatever it is, it probably has to do with Jensen Huang

It's Friday the 13rd after all ...

Reporter: There are reports that this is AI related. Markwayne Mullin: We call it SI. Got it? SI. OK?

We are run by morons.

On CNBC:

> Airlines said flights in the air would continue.

This is a huge relief! phew

Wild to see this on adsb.lol, nothing taking off, just some big landing queues

I noticed several T-38s flying around. Maybe it's the beginning of a FAA-led coup d' etat.

Homeland Security saying "Telecommunications" outage. Whatever that means. Listening to a live broadcast NBCNEWS.

Seems like flights have been getting grounded since 1:30ish and they just kept it on the DL until the stocks were safe

Didn't they just upgrade from a system from DOS?... Maybe the new system wasn't backward compatible :-)

If tomorrow there is third major outage of an important infra-structure level service, maybe I will start to get a little conspiratorial about cyberattacks and such.

Someone forgot to put their phone in airplane mode

New AI software update deployed using AI?

Fox News says that Markwayne Mullin says that the FAA says that it's not a cyberattack, and it's not something like 911. Just heard that, don't have a page to point to at the moment...

Update: https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/faa-issues-nationwide-grou...

Does the FAA use Microsoft 363 (and counting)?

Is OpenAI testing "sandbox testing" their agents again?

An Eithad airways pilot decided it didn’t apply to them

Flight EY8 from Boston to Abu Dhabi https://fr24.com/ETD6PX/429055e2

If it turns out the AI virus has infected ATC, I'm not sure I'll ever fly again.

Its outlook affecting their "frequencies" :D

The UFO community is going to have a field day

Speculation is bad for my health.

Mechahitler deployed to FAA by Elon minions? Could be next Netflix show

Ran out of Maxell MD2HDs?

This is what happens when you get rid of floppy disks, smh

Rogue AI? Iran? Aliens? Coup? Anyone taking bets yet?

Uh-oh, better switch back to the floppy disks

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-faa-says-it-will-phase-o...

Did Crowdstrike release another zero-day?

Man, having some high speed trains might be useful right about now.

First real cyber attack on the US, presumably. Or a giant cluster...

Here comes the manufacturered AI cyber attack on critical infra to hammer the point that government needs complete control over AI.

They’re waiting for windows update?

Homeland security secretary says "telecommunication outage".

...so at least it's not something 911-ish

Somewhere is someone who works for ATC IT who was giving an MS IT friend shit last night.

Anthropic IPO just around the corner...

My guess is a dopey AI rollout caused it: https://arstechnica.com/features/2026/11/faa-expands-ai-advi...

yesterday Thursday November 12

> "FAA expands AI advice to manage air traffic congestion across entire US airspace"

* https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/11/faa-expands-ai-advice-to-...

> "FAA Is Rolling Out Its AI Air Traffic Tool Nationwide"

* https://gizmodo.com/the-faa-is-rolling-out-its-ai-air-traffi...

And now Canada is offline too (our LAX pilot said)

I know we're all having fun in the comments. But please think about this next time you vote, local/county/state/national. There are people in charge who are not funding upgrading these systems, because their constituents don't want their taxes raised to pay for it. That lack of funding is annoying to some, has an enormous economic impact to many, and is now risking tens of thousands of lives who are literally up in the air. There are planes carrying body parts destined for transplant that are grounded. People who need to get home to their families. All because nobody wanted to pay for what we knew we needed to fix.

how the hell the FAA's systems dont have double or triple redundancy just like Airplanes are required to ?

They’re going to blame this on Iran, aren’t they?

This also happened on 9/11 which is curious because the NVIDIA thing caused a public rift with Lutnick yesterday:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/bessent-blames-lutnick...

We paid more than $800MM for "route suggestions", btw, a problem that doesn't seem to benefit at all from "AI"—a term reserved for fantastical algorithms. Surely you could solve this with traditional search algorithms without sacrificing your dignity!

Is there another “rogue agent” now?

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Took themselves off floppy disks and now look what happens. /s

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