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.”

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    13 hours ago

    He saw the FAA announce the rollout of a new system to replace the old reliable one that was created by people who knew wtf they were doing.

    The FAA tweet that said “goodbye to paper” basically gave everyone who ever worked in government IT a massive heads-up

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        10 hours ago

        I looked it up. The SMART AI used is from a private company. I admit I wanted to see their stocks tank on Monday… but alas.

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          Marc Andreessen is a big seed investor in the company and apparently lobbied Trump to implement the companies product(s). Fuck Marc Andreessen