Flights grounded across US
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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"
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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.
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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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Yesterday, 22:47
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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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Yesterday, 22:52
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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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They get what they deserve for treating the world so bad!!
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Re: Flights grounded across US
Down to a router on a copper to fibre upgrade it seems.
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A nationwide US ground stop that caused thousands of flight cancellations was caused by an issue following a copper wire upgrade, Transport Secretary Sean Duffy said.
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The transport secretary explained that a router that was being worked on had started flooding other air traffic control systems and created communication issues with planes which led the government to shut down the airspace for safety reasons.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6wy9lynq4qno
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Re: Flights grounded across US
Probably because they plugged it into the wrong router, I mean rawlter lol
https://elsaspeak.com/en/learn-engli...onounce/router
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Re: Flights grounded across US
What kind of idiot schedules a critical infrastructure changeover of a live system in the middle of a working day?
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Today, 19:04
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Re: Flights grounded across US
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Originally Posted by Dingbat
What kind of idiot schedules a critical infrastructure changeover of a live system in the middle of a working day?
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In todays world . . probably one ordered to do it, or else 
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Re: Flights grounded across US
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Originally Posted by Dingbat
What kind of idiot schedules a critical infrastructure changeover of a live system in the middle of a working day?
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Flights in the usa are a 24/ 7 service out side USA , flights come at all times . Not forgetting my favourite ( for everyone else) red-eye.
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Re: Flights grounded across US
Whatever they say it is, that’s what it probably isn’t……same with the Microsoft outage.
---------- Post added at 20:28 ---------- Previous post was at 20:27 ----------
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What kind of idiot schedules a critical infrastructure changeover of a live system in the middle of a working day?
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No one, hence my comment above.
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Today, 20:53
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Re: Flights grounded across US
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Whatever they say it is, that’s what it probably isn’t……same with the Microsoft outage.
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No one, hence my comment above.
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Oh sorry, no, you would be surprised.
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