The Federal Aviation Administration issued a nationwide ground stop on Friday afternoon, “due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety.”
A ground stop halts flights at their departure point.
Inbound international flights will be managed on a case by case basis, the FAA said.
The FAA didn’t immediately comment further.
Nationwide ground stops are extremely rare. In January 2023, the FAA halted flights because of issues with a pilot alert system. Before that, traffic was halted nationwide after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
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the compeeter broke :(
Okay actually yes though
Bluesky
CNN just interviewed someone at Newark Airport saying they were looking for hotels because their flight was canceled and that “prices are spiking.” Well at least someone is benefiting amid this.
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There once was a concept called “distressed traveller” in the hotel industry where air/rail passengers who were stranded due to weather or cancellations or whatever were granted a discounted rate for a night. Yeah, that’s as dead as civility in politics.
Had something similar happen to me this summer, except all hotels were booked and had to get an airbnb
Hi, plane expert here! This is not funny. Planes only do this when they’re in extreme distress.
Do you think the smaller ones are huddling around the absolute units? They never really get to spend time with their families like this, so hopefully it’s not all bad.
Basically this meme but with Cessnas and a 747
Huh. This turns me on in ways I never knew about myself. LET THE WRENCHES PROCREATE
This story made me realize how cool it is this kind of chatter is public and accessible.
There’s also some real gems.
You can buy an cheap baofeng radio and most will do airband. Then you could listen to planes and ATC in your area.
Most of the time they don’t say anything interesting
If I had money and wasn’t currently getting rid of things, I’d get one of those radios.
They do sound cool though. I had a walkie talkie set as a kid that incidentally picked up aircraft chatter when they were above the horizon. I didn’t try talking back because I could not think of anything a pilot might want to know.
Gotta love the 80s.
If you want to do something a little bit more modern you can get a RTL SDR and recieve ADS-B information.
If you use https://github.com/MalcolmRobb/dump1090
And https://github.com/wiedehopf/tar1090
You can have an at home air radar.
Now in terms of just listening I really enjoy my Quasheng UK-V5. It has really good air band receive.
I am shocked a walkie talkie could receive any air chatter but maybe they used to be AM. I think all of the new ones are FM.
Dollar General had what amounted to a modern SMD spiritual version of the those old walkie talkies. Individual SMD transisters and everything. Worked on the old ~49Mhz band.
Pretty sure it was FM based.
safety is woke, i say turn the planes back on
That’s pretty much how the “we’ve lifted the ground stop” presser went
People die all the time, we don’t shut the planes down for it. If it’s your time, it’s your time!
God’s plan.
We just need to get in enough plane crashes to reach herd immunity. Natural immunity, too, none of those plane crash vaccines!
Planes will never gain resistance to crashes if we keep them in crash debt
Craccines
Rumors initially look like it’s AI related fuck up.
From yesterday
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.
NOVEMBER 12, 2026
Amazing this didn’t happen immediately after turned on
Just shove the slop machine into every sensitive thing I’m sure nothing can go wrong!
This baby can shit out 20 years of technical debt in months!
They forgot to add “and make no mistakes” to the end of the prompt
Classic rookie mistake, they forgot to add “bad quality” in the negative prompt.
This is what happens when you’ve got an entire industry not only run by robutts but also by unlicensed people who make these robutts.
Oh no but we want more money, why would we ever unionize, computer dorkery is lucrative. Have fun not having a job fucko
1960s bad sci-fi: “If the robutts stop listening to us - they could kill somebody!”
Real life 2026 America: “We’re putting AI in charge of everything. There’s a steep learning curve so expect constant mass death. Progress comes at a price.”
The main thing I’ve learned today is that the US Transportation Secretary is a former Fox News host
I thought that was the War Secretary. Transportation, too?
Might as well be the entire cabinet at this point
https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-fox-news-personalities-serving-donald-trump-administration-2070560 https://thehill.com/media/5292841-former-fox-news-hosts-in-trumps-cabinet/
Sean Duffy, the current secretary of transportation, had co-hosted FOX Business program The Bottom Line before Trump tapped him to join the administration, and his wife, Rachel Campos-Duffy, also a former co-host of Hegseth’s, continues to host Fox & Friends Weekend.
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Jensen Huang, in a bigger leather jacket, activating a backdoor in the ATC AI to escape to China with the secrets of his GPUs (sucking slightly less than AMD). By the time the government figures it out and grounds all flights, he’s long gone, hidden where no one would look for him (the AI took him to new mexico).
I love being stuck at the airport looking at the miserable carpeting :)
Being in an Airbus A320 was so cool but the airport was turbo ass.
If you don’t already, now is a great time to take up day drinking at the airport as a hobby.
When I was in a long distance relationship I would do it semi-frequently lol.
Most expensive way to get drunk
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Well uh, I guess I should have said that I’m usually at the airport to fly the plane…
How could I trust a pilot that can’t determine for themselves when they’ve had enough? Carry on! And tell some weird inflight jokes or something already, why y’all gotta be so booooring?
Uh, whiskey tango foxtrot, over?
Woah, I wonder what’s happening.
I hope the reason is AI software in the traffic control systems. I want that bubble bursting from successive crisises.
Surely not the AI!
It’s certainly entertaining me
Damn, AI’s even doing Jon Stewart’s I’m just a comedian bit.
Mr. President, a third airplane is doing cartwheels on the tarmac
What a world where trans people can be deadnamed and called the t-word but you’re expected to respect SI.
And it’s Friday the 13th too.
Seriously though - any guesses as to what the fuck is going on?
From yesterday:
https://gizmodo.com/the-faa-is-rolling-out-its-ai-air-traffic-tool-nationwide-2000839347
Lol. Lmao, even
They’re claiming there’s a nationwide ATC radar system outage
“I may have inadvertently disabled ATC radar system nationwide. That’s on me,” apologies Claude.
That a radar system can even be nation wide sounds like a design flaw. Like, you’d expect at least each airport should be able to access the local radar set.
I keep waiting for some big event that causes them to throw up their hands and let OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and X write their own regulation bill. The bill just outlaws any open source or non-US AI while allowing them to harvest your dreams. I figured it would happen before mid-terms but now maybe it has to happen before January. Could this be it? Maybe.
I wonder what dreams taste like?
Have they tried turning it off and on again?
Well it’s updating and it says don’t turn off the computer…
Well, that ain’t good!
