The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a nationwide ground stop for all U.S. airports following a “communication issue impacting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers,” according to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.
The outage appears to be affecting a telecommunications network overseen by L3Harris Technologies, according to people briefed on the matter. The network handles crucial radio frequencies that air-traffic controllers use to communicate with pilots, the people said.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/faa-temporarily-halts-flights-across-u-s-b9b06e59?st=BXwwdR
In other news: https://www.l3harris.com/newsroom/editorial/2025/01/letter-leaders-doge
From yesterday:
This doesn’t seem very smart
AI so smart that is taking global warming matters into its own 12 fingered hands
If AI is smart enough to switch to a 12 based system then I would honestly be impressed.
AI should only be implemented by people who could create the same thing manually.
We can assume this was vibe coded by a moron tho.
AI should only be implemented by people who could create the same thing manually.
Why tho?
If you have the skill set then just use that skill set.
IMO the best use of AI has been making something meh when you have absolutely no clue what you are doing.
That handles routing of traffic, not communications.
The pilot on my flight today joked that this might be like the beginning of Independence Day
If the aliens want to take over I’m not going to fight them on it.
We’ll make great pets.
Not me. I chew on things and eat way too much.
I’ll hump their legs, but they would find that endearing.
As someone who has experience as SWE and SRE I can tell you that, if to route traffic it needs access to communications then it definitively can affect communications.
Huh.
Might not be related.
What a way to start a weekend.
We only had one similar stop since 9/11 (25 years ago). I’m sure it is a coincidence. /s
But when is the actual date of the rollout? This article didn’t say.
Perhaps they weren’t quite ready to stop using floppies.
Pigeon floppy disk ground-to-air communication protocol!
ADSB (live map of all air traffic) over the US is pretty damn interesting right now.
Afaik atm, anything leaving from the US, headed to somewhere in the US, is… indefinitely (?) grounded.
Outbound to international destination flights do appear to be leaving from some airports, flights crossing over the US from say Mexico to Canada are still en route… oddly I think I’m seeing flights that are ultimately international dest outbound… but have stopovers at US airports… are still … going to US airports?
I genuienly think this is ‘we turned on our new vibe coded slopgorithm that “optimizes” internal US flights’ … and it immediately shit the bed.
Also from various live coverage I’m seeing, many many reports of passengers just being in a grounded aircraft, on the tarmac, for 2 3 4 hours, then apparentltly the airlines just eventually give up and deboard them.
As of 6:14pm central, I’m seeing planes taking off on the flight radar. Specifically a plane registered in the UK leaving Chicago, 2 leaving Seattle, 1 leaving San Francisco.
Perhaps they’re letting a few through?
“Jimmy, get the box of floppies!”
wth, why is everything happening at once??
The Singularity is approaching.
Following current events is getting really hard recently.
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Says who???
