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.

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[–] 172 points 1 day ago (16 children)

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
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  • [–] 48 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

    It could be something totally innocuous. Last time this happened it was because one engineer pushed an update that broke everything, iirc.

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    Ha hahahhaha

    Hahahhahahha

    FAA ATC isn't using computers that can even run Crowdstrike, so they were safe from that.

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  • [–] 7 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

    Also those aren’t the kind of systems where you would “push an update”, so the commenter I was replying to I assume was referring to that. Which did cause a ton of groundings. But not due to FAA/ATC systems, rather due to windows boxes operated by the carrier’s personnel.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    Yeah, something flopped, most probably. Floppy maybe?

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  • [–] 5 points 22 hours ago*

    Maybe the tanker crash near Louisiana had more to it than a steering failure, and they figured if ships will collide might be worth figuring out more before planes go down.

    More than likely neither are related and it's smart to play it safe if air traffic controllers were having any issues

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