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.
There’s no official word, but to add some context, the FAA deployed a new AI-powered computer system for air traffic control yesterday.
Again, no proof that that’s what’s going on. But it sure is interesting.
The current SMART roll out should have been nothing but route optimization, if human controllers agreed. OTOH, that’s one hell of a coincidence if that was related.
They didn’t deploy it yesterday. They expanded it yesterday. It has been in use for a couple months so far.
An AI posted system… powered on Copilot?..
They’ve officially denied this as being related.
So it probably is.
We never had these kinds of outages before they got rid of DEI.
Unrelated. But you’re right.
I was on a flight when everything was grounded. I asked the pilot and he could neither confirm nor deny that it’s aliens.
My connecting flight was cancelled so I split a $600 Uber with four strangers
One of the folks looks a lot like John Candy.
Another is an old Polish lady who said “I had a feeling ze world would end today”
So… its aliens.
He didn’t say it’s not, so…
IMO theyre keeping it under wraps for one of these reasons:
- it was an attack and they dont want panic
- it was yet another huge failure of “ai” bullshit and they can’t upset shareholders any longer so need to keep secret
- it was floppies
It’s because they’re using teams
It could be something totally innocuous. Last time this happened it was because one engineer pushed an update that broke everything, iirc.
You mean the clownstrike?
Ha hahahhaha
Hahahhahahha
FAA ATC isn’t using computers that can even run Crowdstrike, so they were safe from that.
Maybe the tanker crash near Louisiana had more to it than a steering failure, and they figured if ships will collide might be worth figuring out more before planes go down.
More than likely neither are related and it’s smart to play it safe if air traffic controllers were having any issues
Yeah, something flopped, most probably. Floppy maybe?
They flipped when they should’ve flopped.
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couldnt keep it up
Or another day of distraction
My theory: Trump Admin hired someone incompetent and they fucked up the comms. I mean that just the theme of trump admins basically
Big Balls II: Electric Groundaloo
Outlook and Teams outage /s
Honestly wouldn’t be surprised if air traffic control is run off of one massive excel document
That functions via a series of complex formulas and macros created by an ex-employee that no current employee understands.
And after following links to other sheets and files the last, most important one, lies in that persons personal SharePoint and is inaccessible
It’s like I’m at work right now
…and the whole thing is shared around via floppy disks
The actual advisory from the FAA is:
ATCSCC Advisory ATCSCC 111 DCC 11/13/2026 NATIONAL GROUND STOP MESSAGE: EVENT TIME: 13/2053 - 14/0400 DUE TO EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES AND FOR REASONS OF SAFETY. ATTENTION ALL AIRCRAFT OPERATORS, BY ORDER OF THE FEDERAL AVIATION COMMAND CENTER ALL AIRPORTS ARE GROUND STOPPED. ALL DEPARTING TRAFFIC SHOULD REMAIN GROUND STOPPED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. INBOUND INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS WILL BE MANAGED ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS. EFFECTIVE TIME: 132054 - 140430 SIGNATURE: 26/11/13 20:54Source: https://www.fly.faa.gov/ois/oisedit/adv_oisedit_dis?number=111&day=11132026&gdp=-1&gstop=196093
Beyond that, all I’ve seen so far is:
Markwayne Mullin, the secretary of homeland security, says Trump administration officials blamed a telecommunication outage but said they did not know its cause and that it would “take some time” to fix the issues grounding flights.
per NYT’s reporting: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/11/13/us/ground-stop-nationwide-flights-faa/d2ae2ce1-ac6b-59ad-ad8d-daef4e181b34
Edit (longer quote further down from Mullin):
Markwayne Mullin, the secretary of homeland security, blamed the ground stop on a telecommunication outage but said Trump administration officials did not know the cause, adding that it would take an extended period of time to fix the issues. “This isn’t going to just be resolved and turned around within the hour,” he said. “This is going to take some time.”
Well the news places just had a story a day or two ago about how they were rolling out AI air traffic control systems nationwide. Could be that their new AI shit the bed right away
The AI is prioritizing safety by not letting anyone fly.
Plane-to-plane collisions can be drastically reduced if we only allow one plane to fly at a time.
My logic is undeniable
They might forget to
leave the irradiated arealand properly. Gotta remove the “through inaction” clause of the first law.
The world dungeon is opening
You know how I feel about exploitative reality TV, Carl
Goddamnit, Donut.
Fuckin ai
Trump heard ‘the copilot’ was down and thought ‘but how are they going to land the planneesss? And grounded the country
They forgot about the speed of light.
My all-time favorite troubleshooting story!
WELL worth a read for the uninitiated.
Friday the 13th obviously
First step of a coup d’etat.
