FAA Issues Nationwide Ground Stop

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FAA orders nationwide ground stop, citing 'extraordinary circumstances'
www.scrippsnews.com

... The Federal Aviation Administration issued a nationwide ground stop on all air traffic at U.S. airports Friday due to "extraordinary circumstances."

The stop was placed "DUE TO EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES AND FOR REASONS OF SAFETY." The stop requires that all air traffic set to depart U.S. airports remain grounded. Any flights already airborne would be allowed to proceed to their destinations.

Officials said the stop would remain in place until further notice.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Friday afternoon the FAA "issued a nationwide ground stop for all U.S. airports following a communication issue impacting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers. FAA technicians are investigating the issue."

The @FAAnews issued a nationwide ground stop for all U.S. airports following a communication issue impacting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers. FAA technicians are investigating the issue. We will provide immediate updates as we have them.
" Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) November 13, 2026

The FAA said incoming flights from international origins would be handled on a "case by case basis." ...

The fat idiot needs to flee back to Mother Russia?

Suspicious seeing that just a few hours ago, three RAF airbases were on lockdown with their sirens blaring.

A practice run for something?

Portions of national radar are also off-line now. Rogue AI agents?

I'm not saying this is related, but this hasn't been a good week for AI.
Posted two days ago:

The FAA Is Rolling Out Its AI Air Traffic Tool Nationwide
The FAA has reassured the public and airlines that SMART only suggests routes and doesn't affect air safety.
gizmodo.com

This is probably not a practice run because of the nationwide nature of the NOTAM.

Were the Israelis involved?

Possibly.

Israel wants the US to continue its bankrupting war against the 93m people of Iran.

Recall that the Israelis fed Dummkopf Trumpf a false threat about Iran targeting AF1 with a MANPADS in super-secure Ankara at the NATO Summit.

Every counterintelligence agent and threat analyst on the planet would have known that the Iranians would never dishonor their neighbor and trading partner Turkiye with such a brazen scheme on their soil.

But Dummkopf Trumpf and Tulsi "I'm not in a cult" Gabbard culled the USIC of its experts and so the WH fell for Bibi's trap, forcing the poltroon to hide in a hot dog cart when he left Ankara.

"FUNNY 2"

Sean Duffy has it under control.

meidasnews.com

Skynet has been switched on.

Definitely Trump shenanigans. This reeks of an upcoming false flag and Stephen Miller.

@9. Now I must burn out my mind's eye.

Danke schoen, reinheitsgebot!

"FUNNY 2"

Where is imalumpertoo with all his experty sounding pilot jargon?

This reeks. Either this is some shenanigans by the Trump Administration or else shenanigans caused by America's enemies in direct response to aggressive actions by the Trump Administration. In either case, it has Trump's fingerprints all over it.

FYI: Sean Duffy is worthless

"FUNNY 2"

It's weird that only Domestic flights are grounded.
I guess that's a segregates system from International?
Hmmm. I wonder if this is related to ICE disappearing immigrants who take domestic flights, but not international flights.

Mr real world is likely wearing a strap on under the towel.
Another "reality TV" loser just like his mentor Orange Adolf.

"I'm not saying this is related, but this hasn't been a good week for AI.
Posted two days ago:"

Good catch. Likely related!

Tanker just turns and crashes into cruiseship docked.

Just watching the overhead imagery of that tanker turning directly at is was frightening.

@16 Canadian flights to the US are affected.

Canadian press is reporting this NOTAM is a "technological problem" in the US.

No press releases from NORAD, our joint US-Canadian military alliance.

So much winning.

Sources:

cbc.ca

norad.mil

"FUNNY 2"

What do I know, I'm only 62, but I never recall this kind of stuff happening before Trump and before DOGE got its hooks into the government computers and FAA csoftware.
I'd like to be wrong, though. Jump in and make corrections if needed.

#21 | POSTED BY E1G1

It happened on 9/11. All flights were grounded for at least a few days after the attack from what I remember.

Reminder a couple of months ago our fleet of air tankers fled like their asses were on fire from a base in England

then earlier this week more planes bravely ran away from another English base

Now this

Iran sent a couple of drones at US bases in the gulf yesterday in response to our ongoing attacks

Iran has been threatening an ever-expanding area of attack that includes our bases in Europe.

Seems to me this is linked to Iran

But who knows

Good thing we can trust our government

Re 7

You may be close to the truth.

Because as a technician I don't believe in coincidences.

I've worked on FAA equipment. There is a reason it's been difficult and expensive to upgrade. I would not touch anything without an FAA tech present as a witness that it was working when I left. And preferably one of my own techs to my witness my work too.

"Seems to me this is linked to Iran"

Just what Israel wants you to think!

It was either the AI upgrade or a cyberattack.

I'd prefer it be the upgrade.

I just heard a private jet take off from the small airport near me.

Wonder if small airports are exempt.

Flag:

#14 | Posted by moder8

Or just corrupt incompetence because some AI investor/donor got him to install a traffic control system that wasn't properly designed and tested.

An update ...

Live updates: FAA grounds all departing flights due to air traffic control communications outage
www.reuters.com

...
The US Federal Aviation Administration issued a nationwide ground stop for all departing flights on Friday, citing 'extraordinary circumstance and reasons for safety.

- - - Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said all flights were accounted for and there was no reason for the public to be afraid

- - - Mullin added there was no indication the disruption was a deliberate attack, describing it as a telecommunications outage

- - - Flights already in the air may land, but aircraft on the ground cannot take off and international flights will be handled on a case-by-case basis

- - - The order followed an earlier halt to traffic in Chicago because of communications problems

- - - Friday's action marked the second nationwide ground stop of all departures since the September 11, 2001, attacks

...

Aviation analytics firm Cirium said that after 4 p.m. ET, about 11,000 flights carrying more than 1.5 million passengers were still scheduled to depart from US airports on Friday.

As of 5:50 p.m. ET, the firm reported:

- - - 600 flights had been diverted on Friday

- - - 496 of the 600 flights (82.7%) returned to their origin airport, while the remaining 104 diverted to a different airport

- - - The airports that received the most diverted flights overall were Chicago O'Hare (ORD), with 28; Denver (DEN), with 26; Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW), with 19; and Washington National (DCA), Charlotte (CLT) and Los Angeles (LAX), with 16 each

- - - Among flights that diverted to an airport other than their origin, Cincinnati (CVG) received the most, with six, followed by San Jose (SJC), with five

...

Hrat has a grainy photo if a spinning Cube over Trump-Miami Airport, so now we know!

Has stinky blamed Biden yet?

"The airports that received the most diverted flights overall were Chicago O'Hare (ORD)"

Looks like they picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

It's Friday the 13th. What did you expect?

Ron Filipkowski
@RonFilipkowski

1h
Inflation is up again, half the cabinet lives on military bases afraid of various things, we're selling sensitive chips to Chinese spies while the govt ignores it, we're in an endless war w/Iran, there's a mass exodus at DOJ, and flights are grounded. This is what MAGA voted for.

"half the cabinet lives on military bases afraid"

Banana Republic stuff.

Looks like it was the wrong year to lay off or force retire all the legacy knowledge.

What a Fuster Cluck.

Now the NWS radar is down. WTF is Russia doing?

This is just Trump punishing America for the election.

Microsoft had a major outage yesterday too

This is a test run for all these -----. Expect more shenanigans before the new Congress is sworn in..

Two days ago the FAA brought their AI system online.

Mullin doesn't rule out cyberattack in unprecedented nationwide passenger plane grounding
www.politico.com

... The Homeland Security secretary also said the administration was looking into a new AI air traffic control system, which was rolled out at airports this week.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Friday that he had "no reason to believe" that an unprecedented nationwide grounding of the nation's air traffic was due to a threat, but he did not rule out a cyberattack.

Earlier in the afternoon, the Federal Aviation Administration issued the nationwide ground stop, its second such order in recent years, citing communication issues.

Mullin, in an interview with reporters outside the White House, said, "There is no indication, and we have no reason to believe as of right now that this was a threat to the United States." However, when later asked if the disruption could have been a cyberattack or an AI intrusion, he said, "That's not known." ...

It's unclear how long the grounding will last. Mullin said, "It's going to take some time, and so this isn't going to just be be resolved and and turned around within the hour. This is this is going to take take some time." He added, "There should be no fear to the public at all."

Mullin was also asked about the FAA's new AI-driven air traffic tool, known as SMART, which was rolled out nationwide this week. He responded: "We're looking at that."

Plague of equipment problems

In a post on X, however, the developers of the AI system, Boston-based Air Space Intelligence, said: "The current ground stop is not based on or a result of the SMART system, any product of ASI or our integration with FAA" and air traffic control. ...

@#40 ... Microsoft had a major outage yesterday too ...

imo, in the context of Microsoft's outage, "major" is a significant understatement.

@#34

Spot on.

imo, of course.

This is a test run for all these -----. Expect more shenanigans before the new Congress is sworn in..
#41 | Posted by a_monson

100%. They'll throw as many spanners into the works as they can before Jan 3. Actual malfeasance.

Portions of national radar are also off-line now. Rogue AI agents?

#6 | Posted by pumpkinhead

That's my question every time a major tech glitch happens, including the recent Microsoft Outlook.

@#6 ... Portions of national radar are also off-line now. Rogue AI agents? ...

What national radar?

Here's what I found ...

National Weather Service Radar Outage Rumors Debunked by Officials
theuschronicle.com

... The National Weather Service debunks viral rumors of a nationwide radar outage, confirming that all NWS radar systems are fully operational. ...

Yer up ...

@SecDuffy
Secretary Sean Duffy

U.S. Department of Transportation
@SecDuffy
For years, severe weather could mean hours of delays for your flights. We're changing that.

@FAANews is expanding its SMART platform nationwide, cutting flight times, saving millions of dollars in fuel, and keeping traffic moving even when storms hit.

Heckuva job, Duffy.

The cyberattack was the upgrade...

Everything DOGE touched needs to be torn down and rebuilt without the spyware/malware/AI slop...

"Offline" being the key word.

Unclear if cyber attack or technical issue.

FAA lifts hours-long ground stop that stemmed from communications problems
www.scrippsnews.com

... U.S. cabinet officials said Friday the incident was a communications problem, not an indicator of an attack or emergency.

The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday night lifted a ground stop on U.S. air traffic, ending a multi-hour incident that halted flights after an air traffic communications issue. ...

@#52 ... U.S. cabinet officials said Friday the incident was a communications problem, not an indicator of an attack or emergency. ...

If that is the actual case, then it raises so many other questions.

My first question would be along the lines of ...

If it were a communications issue, why was it so widespread?

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was just on TV complaining because Congress has failed to allocate the $50 billion that he claims is needed to replace the old analog communication system, which is what failed today. Why don't they just divert some of the $150 to $200 billion that was given to ICE in the 'Big Beautiful Bill'?

OCU

Why don't they just divert some of the $150 to $200 billion that was given to ICE in the 'Big Beautiful Bill'?

You don't understand how the American government allocates money do you.

Democrats unfortunately voted against America upgrading their air traffic control system, much like they voted against making it illegal for congressmen to trade stocks.

If it were a communications issue, why was it so widespread?

Networking .. LOL and you call yourself a tech person .. what a tool.

#55

You're a clown. Just go stab your eye out with a pair of scissors.

@#54 ... the old analog communication system, which is what failed today. ...

Why did that system choose to fail today? And why so widespread of a failure?

And not choose to fail last week?

Or last month?

Why today?

imo, I doubt if we will see the usual techie post-mortem analysis and discussion of the reasons for this failure.

Which then leads me to ask, what is the Trump admin (in their usual mode) trying to cover up?

They flipped on their AI -------- without testing it.

They pushed new code to production on a Friday.

That is the exact thing you are not supposed to do.

This is what is known as a "Resume Generating Event."

Because you're going to be looking for a new job.

A "network update" reportedly crashed a private system operated by defense contractor L3Harris, taking down U.S. air traffic control communications that caused the nationwide FAA ground stop.

That is the exact thing you are not supposed to do.

What push code? you're and idiot.

It was a botched upgrade. A bad patch.

I have done hundreds. Lamplighter is right. They obviously botched it badly. And on a Friday.

And caused a system meltdown.

Please. Keep them away from our nuclear power plants!

FAA lifts nationwide ground stop, White House says no indication of "nefarious act"
www.cbsnews.com

... "At 8:15 tonight, Eastern time, we've opened up the airspace," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said during a news briefing Friday night. "Now does that mean every flight is going to fly right now? It's going to be slow. So if you're watching, you're at an airport, check with your airline."

The FAA had issued the ground stop on all departing flights due to "extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety." The ground stop lasted about five hours.

Duffy attributed the ground stop to outdated air traffic control technology and routers overloaded by data.

"What we have is an incredibly old air traffic control system," Duffy said in the news conference. "... Our routers actually got overloaded with data and ... they started to give us inconsistency in the data from those routers. And because of that, we shut the system down."

An update to the private communications network that connects America's air traffic control system caused the system to reboot, leading to a crash and a communications outage, multiple sources told CBS News earlier Friday. The system is operated by L3Harris, which did not immediately respond to CBS News' request for comment. ...

@63 ... Our routers actually got overloaded with data ...

Why?

@#64

Was it a denial of service attack?

Why would routers that have handled traffic levels for years suddenly be "overloaded with data?"

It is my understanding that this is an example of how the problems with AI will play out. Major networks taken down randomly. I would imagine that that will accelerate with time.

I wish we had a government we could trust to deal with it and to be honest about it

More ...

www.reuters.com

... Duffy said the trouble began at 3:36 p.m., when air traffic control centers experienced instability in radar and communications systems.

"Our switches, our routers actually got overloaded with data and they started to give us inconsistencies in the data from those routers and because of that we shut the system down," Duffy said, adding that at no stage did they completely lose radar or communications and they were able to safely land thousands of planes.

Duffy said the immediate problem had been fixed and that flying was safe, but warned that a broader overhaul of the aging air traffic control system was needed to prevent similar failures. ...

@#67 ... Our switches, our routers ...

OK, for starters, Sec Trans Duffy seems to confuse network switches with network routers. That is wrong.

When he does that it looks to me as if he is trying to appear to know what has happened, when he has not a clue.

But moving on ...

... Duffy said the immediate problem had been fixed ...

... and what, precisely, was that immediate problem that had been fixed?

"It is my understanding that this is an example of how the problems with AI will play out."

The Internet is not really able to survive AI.

The Internet was built with the expectation of implicit trust, which is not how mission-critical infrastructure should operate.

They are killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.

That press conference of Mullin and Duffy was one of the most pathetic things I've ever seen. They came across as a couple of weak, intellectually stunted turds. They have absolutely no clue what they're doing.

That this, I'll say, outage occurred around the same time that Microsoft also experienced a world-wide outage of their Internet-based products, ... was it an unlikely coincidence?

Mark Wayne and Duffy need to lose their jobs over this ----.

Money for Israel, money for war, money for stupid projects, money for ICE, but no money for SNAP, universal healthcare, food inspection, or the FAA.

"FUNNY 2"

www.google.com

Musk up to something?

@#75

Oh, please. Stop polluting threads.

@#69 ... The Internet is not really able to survive AI. ...

I do not disagree.

The, I'll call them, interactions I see on my public web server have been more than suspicious.

Indeed, I used to block, say, 200 or 300 IP addresses on that server. Now those same blocking scripts are blocking a 10-fold increase in the number of IP addresses that seem to be assaulting it.

And that number seems to be increasing each day ...

Something has drastically changed on the Internet of late.

You're not wrong, my business website has been getting attacked like crazy.

They came across as a couple of weak, intellectually stunted turds. They have absolutely no clue what they're doing.
#70 | Posted by pumpkinhead

That's why Trump hired them.
They're utterly dependent on Daddy for their next fix.

Killing Supreme Leaders in Perfidious and Cowardly Sneak Attacks has CONSEQUENCES.

Lol.

Once you understand that Trump's only real accomplishment in life is turning out tricks, things will begin to make sense.

But most people don't listen to what Jesus said and don't befriend the prostitutes and don't really care when the prostitutes go missing.

So they're just lost right now.

No frame of reference to understand what's happening to them.

Alaska votes cast in remote locations have to be flown in... I just figured the flying trumpanzees were postponing the inevitable.

"you're and idiot"

The most self-retorting retort in the history of retort!

" ... . in a bundant of caution."

- U.S. Homeland Security Plumber,
Rickybobby Mullin (yesterday, twice)

They are so incompetent that they had to do a ground mic stop today during their presser for technical reasons and for safety.

I won't be flying for a while.

What a lousy and inept Chief of Staff Amerikkka has in the White House, a manager who is supposed to coordinate all activities between the departments (DHS, Transportation, DOD, DOJ, etc).

Excerpt of cabinet meeting:

"We'll be testing the FAA ATC systems nationwide on Friday the 13th(!)"

"Is Coriolanus still blogging on drudge.com?"

"Uh, this weekend the Mossad director's gonna be snooping around here in DC, then flying down to Mar-a-Lardo."

"Hey, did the Chargers finally win? I have $20 riding on them that they break the schneid."

"Say, I didn't get the memo. Which Democrats are we targeting with investigations this week?"

"FUNNY 2"

"Say, I didn't get the memo. Which Democrats are we targeting with investigations this week?"

Whomever speaks up. Whomever complains. Whomever asks questions. Preferably brown. Preferably female.

So.. they (the contractor) did a DDOS attack upon themselves.

Nicely done F-Troop. At least no one died this time. But it sure hasn't done anything to help the "affordability problem" in America.

Destroying the FAA is part of Project 2025:

"Page 632, to separate the Air Traffic Organization from the FAA.

Page 633 describes privatizing its communications system."

Speculation swirled on Friday that the DOT's new SMART weather system could have caused the outage. The company that installed that system, Air Space Intelligence, had previously donated to Duffy's son-in-law's political campaign.

www.rawstory.com

In MAGA world Duffy deserves another promotion.

"Destroying the FAA is part of Project 2025"

This is what I voted for.
--Boaz

"What push code?"

This doesn't make any sense.

Do you mean "What code push?"

That would make sense.

You're an idiot.

Seems like if it was a dev, they'd have jumped all over them already.

Why so secret?

Hi Monson:
you know full well what I meant: A grounding of all planes due to incompetence and issues with software.

re: oneIQirony #62
The jokes write themselves, and you are the punch line.

Duffy demands $50B to overhaul aging air traffic control system

Sorry. That money is needed for pedo 47's ballroom.

DUFFY: How many times does this have to happen before Congress gives the money to fix it?
REPORTER: You've been in office almost two years now, Republicans controlled both chambers of Congress and still do.
DUFFY: What network are you from?
rollcall.com

What caused the FAA ground stop? Officials point to router failure during update
www.scrippsnews.com

...Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Saturday that a faulty router might have caused the communications outage that prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to issue a nationwide ground stop Friday, disrupting thousands of flights and stranding travelers.

Investigators have not yet determined the exact cause of the router failure, including whether it stemmed from human error, an installation mistake or a problem with the equipment itself.

Duffy said the outage occurred during routine FAA telecommunications maintenance at a remote facility, where aging copper communications lines were being replaced with fiber-optic service. The work was being performed by L3Harris, the FAA's longtime telecommunications contractor, as part of a broader modernization effort.

"At least one of our remote FAA locations, a contractor was doing routine maintenance to switch telecommunication lines from old copper wire, and they were bringing it over to fiber," Duffy said. "What we're working to determine was whether we had incompetence, meaning was it user error or installer error from L3 Harris, or did they install a faulty router." ...