Astro Hacker News - FAA imposes nationwide ground stop on all flights

mikeweiss |next [-]

4:14pm ET and AP, Reuters, the guardian, CNN.... No one covering this yet. Unnerving!

Jtsummers |root |parent |next [-]

It's making it out to a lot of services, they just don't have much to add yet. It literally happened in the last 20 minutes or so (as of the time of writing this comment). And the only information they have until the FAA announces or publishes more is that the ground stop exists.

nubinetwork |root |parent |previous [-]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-13/faa-groun...

htrp |next |previous [-]

AI Hack, Foreign Hack, or just plain old technical failure?

electroweak |root |parent [-]

Could be a bad batch of update diskettes.

k0morebi |root |parent [-]

Aw man we were so close to migrating off floppy disks too. 2028 is right around the corner

fitzmauricejack |next |previous [-]

5:11 PM no current updates all we know is that all flights are grounded.

ChrisArchitect |next |previous [-]

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

MrCoffee7 |next |previous [-]

It is probably a failure of very old tech - the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is still using floppy disks at some air traffic control facilities! The U.S. infrastructure for this is pretty crappy -see this recent GAO report: https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-107992 .

ixtli |previous [-]

American century of humiliation continues apace. The flight I’ve been on for 45m doesn’t seem like it’s getting turned around.

heohk |root |parent [-]

It grounds departing flights. You're already have departed