All flights in the United States are grounded until further notice,

[Colin Parkinson]

Apparently a "Telecommunication issue" and not a threat issue. Sounds like a cyberattack?

https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/13/us/live-news/flights-ground-stop-faa

 

[brihard]

Looks like they decided to roll out their new AI air traffic control route management system on Friday the 13th. This was, of course, in hindsight, a bad idea.

The FAA Is Rolling Out Its AI Air Traffic Tool Nationwide

The FAA is expanding use of an $875 million AI tool, SMART, to "assist in managing air traffic across the entire national airspace system," but the agency says that the route-management software will not affect air safety.

gizmodo.com

We will as always meme our way through The Situation as we continue to monitor.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2121365575779651952

 

[Blackadder1916]

. . . they decided to roll out their new AI air traffic control route management system . . .

Don't let them hear you.

Markwayne Mullin Chides Reporter Amid FAA Ground Stoppage Chaos: ‘We Call it SI’

The stunning moment came as DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin was briefing reporters on the Federal Aviation Administration's sudden halting of all flights.

www.yahoo.com

. . . while taking questions, Mullin couldn't let the opportunity pass when one of the journalists asked if the stoppage was related to artificial intelligence.

"There are thoughts that, you know, this could be an AI related error or issue," the reporter asked Mullin.

"We call it SI around here remember. SI," he said, before adding, "You just can't rule out anything at this point. We're going through that process and we're going to find out what happened."

 

[brihard]

Don't let them hear you.

Markwayne Mullin Chides Reporter Amid FAA Ground Stoppage Chaos: ‘We Call it SI’

The stunning moment came as DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin was briefing reporters on the Federal Aviation Administration's sudden halting of all flights.

www.yahoo.com

The President calls it 'SI' because he's increasingly addled and doesn't realize that term already has a meaning. Everyone else repeating it is just being a toady.

But I guess Markwayne problems require Markwayne solutions.

 

[OldSolduer]

What fuckin morons inhabit the WH. Good

Lord.

 

[brihard]

A modest number of transoceanic flights flying out over both oceans seem to be starting to take off from some of the major hubs now.

 

[daftandbarmy]

New AI system rollout... what could go wrong?

Mullin doesn't rule out cyberattack in unprecedented nationwide passenger plane grounding​

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.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/11/13/faa-orders-nationwide-grounding-of-passenger-planes-01166043

 

[Maxman1]

Is Gander ready again?

 

[brihard]

The ground stop has been lifted, but thousands of crews and planes aren’t where they were scheduled to be, and of course many crews have timed out on allowable hours. Getting everything back on track will be a mess.

 

[dapaterson]

Trump & Musk biographer has a rundown o f the press conference. It was "interesting".

https://bsky.app/profile/sethabramson.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3n2aemqrokk22

 

[RangerRay]

Trump & Musk biographer has a rundown o f the press conference. It was "interesting".

https://bsky.app/profile/sethabramson.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3n2aemqrokk22

 

[lenaitch]

I watched the presser with the Secretaries of Transportation and DHS. Apparently, many elements of their system are pretty old and a software update caused some cascading failures. Updates on live networked systems are the nightmare scenario of system managers. They have brought down Bell and Rogers to name two.

As an aside, it must be in the Cabinet manual that they must praise Trump at least once per paragraph.

 

[brihard]

Why the hell would you push a big update on a Friday afternoon versus like overnight on Tuesday or something? Am I alone in finding that bizarre?

 

[PuckChaser]

Overnight maybe but I don't think there's ever a good time for US airspace to not be busy.

 

[SeaKingTacco]

Why the hell would you push a big update on a Friday afternoon versus like overnight on Tuesday or something? Am I alone in finding that bizarre?

I thought I read that they pushed the update out Wednesday, but it took 24-36hrs for the problems to emerge.

 

[brihard]

I thought I read that they pushed the update out Wednesday, but it took 24-36hrs for the problems to emerge.

That could well be, yeah. Not gonna pretend I know anything about those systems.