Astro Hacker News - FAA issues nationwide ground stop due to "extraordinary circumstances"

andrewgioia |next [-]

Does anyone have any insight on this? Currently at LGA and they’re continuing boarding procedures, but they’re not giving us any updates otherwise.

abnry |root |parent |next [-]

Radar outage:

https://www.weather.gov/afc/radaroutage

1970-01-01 |root |parent |next [-]

A national radar outage would do it. This would be a bigger story. Everyone needs it to forecast. However it doesn't seem to actually be offline. So I don't think it was a very long outage if it did go down.

gscott |root |parent |next [-]

The floppy disk upgrade went wrong

ddtaylor |root |parent |next |previous [-]

How do a bunch of separate radars all go down at the same time? Aren't they spread around the US?

1970-01-01 |root |parent [-]

I'm thinking it was "the website went down" issue.

Aperocky |root |parent |previous [-]

weather radar still works for weather channels..

O5vYtytb |root |parent |next |previous [-]

I can still access NOAA radars just fine.

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micah94 |root |parent |next |previous [-]

Homeland Security saying "telecommunications" outage. But nothing more at this point...

tosapple |root |parent [-]

microsoft yesterday, funny.

latentsea |root |parent [-]

Jensen the day before that, funny.

jmclnx |root |parent |previous [-]

I think I remember seeing an article here about air traffic controller systems moving off of 3.5" diskettes. Related ?

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neko_ranger |root |parent |next |previous [-]

"upgrade to cds. make no mistakes"

gosub100 |root |parent |previous [-]

No, my guess is cyber attack from a state we've been making false accusations against.

junga |root |parent |next [-]

Which one?

majorchord |root |parent [-]

Too many enemies to guess at this point

GolfPopper |root |parent |next |previous [-]

So, "We have met the enemy and he is us?"

ashdksnndck |root |parent |previous [-]

Can you fill in the blanks here? My attempt: "China would never spy on us, but because of the implication they would put 50k of our citizens currently in the air in mortal danger"?

United857 |next |previous [-]

Is this the first such case since 9/11?

dole |root |parent |next [-]

No.

"January 11, 2023. All U.S. departing flights were halted for several hours after a computer outage crashed the FAA's Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) pilot notification system"

9/11, 2023 and today are the only three times.

Jtsummers |root |parent |next |previous [-]

9/11 was different, that also required all planes to land, more or less, as quickly as possible and not continue to their destinations (unless that was timely, I suppose). This one is a departure ground stop, no more planes going up. Planes in the air haven't been ordered to land yet.

KPGv2 |root |parent |previous [-]

no, there was one in 2023 when a pilot notification system went down

ranger_danger |next |previous [-]

Could this be related to what caused Outlook to go down?

RickJWagner |next |previous [-]

First, the Microsoft outage. Now this.

Extraordinary.

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ChrisArchitect |next |previous [-]

Some more discussion on source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50489641

jmclnx |next |previous [-]

promptsupporter |next |previous [-]

Something with frequency of ATC signals?

dmitrygr |next |previous [-]

earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50489641

teddy2000 |previous [-]

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