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Topic: Shit hitting the fan. All US flights grounded!

Anonymous A started this discussion #139,372

The Federal Aviation Administration ordered a nationwide ground stop Friday for all airlines "due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety.

Are you prepared for what's coming next?

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this , 2 minutes later[^] [v] #1,472,464

> it's real
oh fuck

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this , 7 minutes later, 10 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,472,466

More than 3,000 flights currently bound for US airports - Flightradar24

So what does that mean

Anonymous B replied with this , 1 minute later, 12 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,472,467

Alright well if this were an attack by Iran, they'd 100% use this to drum up support for the war so it's probably not that. The lack of info probably means they're having some technical or staffing issues. Maybe it's related to the shortage of air traffic controllers

Anonymous B double-posted this , 1 minute later, 13 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,472,468

Would they really ground all flights for staffing issues though? Maybe they did get hacked.

Anonymous B triple-posted this , 38 seconds later, 14 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,472,469

@1,472,466 (C)
They said planes in the air can land but nobody else can take off

Anonymous C replied with this , 1 minute later, 15 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,472,470

@previous (B)

Yes but there's communication problems with the air towers? Hope they all land safety

Safely*

(Edited 1 minute later.)

Anonymous B replied with this , 9 seconds later, 15 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,472,471

Who knows how accurate this is but AI says:
> due to a communication and rolling frequency issue impacting Air Route Traffic Control Centers
So I guess it is a technical issue

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this , 1 minute later, 17 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,472,472

They say it's an "air traffic control communication issue". All inbound flights are able to land but no flights can take off as of right now.

Anonymous B replied with this , 30 seconds later, 18 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,472,473

@1,472,470 (C)
They're saying international flights will be handled on a case by case basis and apparently this grounding will last until 11 tonight

Anonymous B double-posted this , 39 seconds later, 18 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,472,474

11:30 pm ET to be specific

Anonymous C replied with this , 1 minute later, 20 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,472,475

@1,472,473 (B)

That's very strange. So they know when the issue is resolved?

Anonymous B replied with this , 2 minutes later, 23 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,472,476

@previous (C)
Well we've been seeing threats sent in to European airports and lots of stuff being hacked in Europe as well. Some of that was attributed to Iran so this could be Iran hacking airport systems in the US. Still a new story so I imagine we'll get more info soon

Anonymous B double-posted this , 42 seconds later, 23 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,472,478

@previous (B)
If it is Iran, they probably don't have proof yet or they'd be blasting every news channel with that info

Anonymous C replied with this , 7 minutes later, 31 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,472,483

Then they are saying that because other flights can't take off, flights landing can't offload passengers. And 3000 flights are inbound

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this , 2 minutes later, 33 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,472,484

It could be some kind of software fuck up. If I remember correctly they were trying to incorporate some new AI into their systems last week. Anyone remember hearing that?

Anonymous B replied with this , 2 minutes later, 35 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,472,485

@previous (A)
lmao you can't be serious what a shitshow

Anonymous B double-posted this , 4 minutes later, 39 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,472,488

Yeah they are incorporating AI

Anonymous B triple-posted this , 1 minute later, 40 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,472,489

Of course this would likely be an AI issue. This country is going to hell

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this , 29 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,472,491

The National Weather Service reported a national radar outage affecting radar.weather.gov, coinciding with technical and communication issues also impacting the FAA

L E M O N M A N joined in and replied with this , 11 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,472,493

Here’s my theory: whatever really caused it they’re not going to tell us and say it was something else.

Have fun!

L E M O N M A N double-posted this , 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,472,494

@1,472,488 (B)

> Yeah they are incorporating AI

I’ve been telling people vibe coding is dumb. If you don’t understand what the code does, let’s stop right there.

I shouldn’t have to explain this.

(Edited 2 minutes later.)

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this , 30 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,472,497

This is the second time this has happened since 9/11.

Anonymous F joined in and replied with this , 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,472,498

@previous (E)
Guy who called it that day was on his first day on the job lol

Anonymous G joined in and replied with this , 41 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,472,502

@previous (F)
Kinda like the AI software the FAA started using across the country 3 days ago.

Anonymous G double-posted this , 1 minute later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,472,504

Anyway, can’t wait until all our software is dependent on Anthropic’s cloud hosted AI and one day Anthropic has an outage. That will be a fun day.
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