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Flights grounded across US

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6z9dwn12037t {link could change/alter with updates}

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Flights have been grounded across the US due to an air traffic control "communication issue", Transport Secretary Sean Duffy says

US aviation officials earlier issued an order to ground all flights due to "extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety"
A little snippet from Al Jazeera:

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This is the first nationwide US ground stop since January 2023, when a key FAA computer system malfunctioned. Before that, the last time had been after the September 11, 2001, attacks.
That last bit could be worrying if they've got a sniff of something . .

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US DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin is speaking to reporters at the White House. He says there is no indication this was an attack against the United States.

"This is a telecommunications outage," he says.

"All the flights are accounted for," he says.
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Re: Flights grounded across US

I’m sure there’s no connection…

https://gizmodo.com/the-faa-is-rolli...ide-2000839347

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is expanding use of an $875 million AI tool, SMART, to “assist in managing air traffic across the entire national airspace system,” Ars Technica reported on Thursday—but the agency says that the route-management software will not affect air safety.
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Re: Flights grounded across US

Yep, and because I'm 'between books' I'm spending time flicking around the news/media stuff . . and AI has been mentioned quite a lot.

The knock on from this will be horrendous . . people struggling for accommodation, people missing important work schedules/meetings, lots of families stuck hundreds (thousands) of miles from home . . and the backlog will take weeks to clear
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