you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 2 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

Considering no one knows anything at this point I think it's just as crazy to say confidently that there is no connection

The official statement was that some systems got overloaded. Gee, I wonder if having a whole slew of new data going through them has even a possibility of overloading old systems?. Maybe not, could be unrelated, but it's not like you're a fucking brainless ape for considering it

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago

    Facts I'm confident in are:

    The outage only caused centers to be unabke to perform their duties (tower and approach were able to continue operations), due to loss of radar and other instrumentation

    SMART AI tool was rolled out to centers on the same day as the ground stop. It is not a tool used by approach or tower

    The FAA did not provide any indication of the cause, which is unusual. Previous outages such as the ground stop in 2023, the FAA provided a reason within a few hours (this was the 2nd nation-wide ground stop since September 11, 2001)

    As a note: I got this information from talking with my tower, so it's 2nd hand to begin with. Minor details may be inaccurate, but I stand behind the broad facts

  • source
  • parent