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.
We never had these kinds of outages before they got rid of DEI.
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?
Yeah, something flopped, most probably. Floppy maybe?
They flipped when they should’ve flopped.
Download Floppy Bird. Like and share with your friends!
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
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.”
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
…and the whole thing is shared around via floppy disks
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.
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
Seems to be “communication issue”: FAA issues nationwide ground stop on all departing flights, citing ‘communication issue’
“Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Friday that there’s “no indication as of yet that this was a nefarious attack against us.””Thank God Markwayne is in that position of power. We’re in such good hands.
“It was malicious incompetence.”
Pretty much it. Besides the thing involving “floppy disks”, there was also something involving USian ATC staff some time ago. I’m not sure if that situation afforded a decision (I’m not USian), but it seems to me the USian ATC has a curious problem of being understaffed, and it’s very likely “management” want to add hallucination-prone AI to the staff. (“you’re absolutely right, I misidentified ACA770 as a foreign, hostile missile. Do you want to know more about the estimated amount of collateral damage, how much airplanes got misidentified as missiles today, or do you want me to investigate if there was a hidden missile smuggled inside the luggage compartment? Let me know how to proceed!”).
Some guy with a backhoe
As opposed to, just, like, a regular attack.
Gestures Broadly at Everything
I wonder if this is at all related to the GPS jamming that’s been happening over Europe that Vertasiun reported on: https://youtu.be/tz23G_UXCGA
does this include flights for medical reasons? Like transporting rare antivenom, and organs, and patients? I wonder how many people this will kill
Does the FAA use AI?
Just three days before Friday’s nationwide ground stop, the FAA announced the national expansion of SMART, a new airspace planning system. Officials have not identified any connection between SMART and the ground stop.
Initially launched in the Washington, DC area on Sept. 21, the platform combines 200 data streams, including weather, flight paths and controller staffing, to help anticipate congestion and recommend scheduling changes.
The FAA said its expansion would cover airspace managed by all 22 regional air traffic control centers. SMART supports planning alongside existing systems; it does not replace controllers or control aircraft.
