All flights in the United States are grounded until further notice “due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety,” the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.
The FAA issued the ground stop “following a communication issue impacting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers,” Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said in a social media post. “FAA technicians are investigating the issue.”
Air Route Traffic Control Centers are regional facilities that handle flights going across the country.
“Traffic should remain ground stopped until further notice,” the FAA said in an advisory. “International flights will be managed on a case by case basis.”
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://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/11/faa-expands-ai-advice-to-manage-air-traffic-congestion-across-entire-us-airspace/
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!
Shut. Down. EVERYTHING.
You joke, but I believe the first cutover was today. Please correct me if my memory failed me.
But no real knowledge of when what will be done, they also announced a rollout of an AI system. Plus there was a blip with weather radar earlier. It could be anything really, or everything
As long as we’re wildly speculating I’d like to posit: aliens are attacking the earth
I felt sure they’d start their invasion in Poland. I mean everybody else has.
Finally. What the fuck took them so long?
I knew those goa’uld weren’t gone for good!
Probably a bit longer now.
I would have stayed with floppies. Less to go wrong.
They wear out and IDK if it’s feasible to get replacements manufactured.
I dunno, it’s probally easier to make/obtain floppies than RAM right now.
It’s not. I don’t think there has been any new manufacture of floppies in years. RAM is available, just really expensive.
I was just joking. But I bet spinning up new floppy production in the US is easier than new RAM production.