All US airports are currently ground stopped

Pilot forum discussion - https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/674910-us-wide-ground-st...

"Frequency outage", I think that translates to radio communications not working, until "22 Zulu" aka 22:00 UTC, 5 PM ET.

https://xnotme.com/flightradar24/status/2121347654714077605

Microsoft outage related??

Looks lifted now. https://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_otherdis?adv_date=11132026&a... https://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_otherdis?adv_date=11132026&a...

"If builders built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization" -- Gerald Weinberg.

Looks like the woodpecker has arrived.

What are all the possible reasons to do this?

Has this ever happened?

This has been a horrible week for AI: Jensen resigned, Microsoft Outage, now FAA outage from new AI system.

The reason is clear: all this points to the ANT ipo next week, people want to pop the AI bubble.

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

I guess some of their floppy drives must have given out.