All flights in the United States are grounded until further notice “due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety,” the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.
The FAA issued the ground stop “following a communication issue impacting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers,” Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said in a social media post. “FAA technicians are investigating the issue.”
Air Route Traffic Control Centers are regional facilities that handle flights going across the country.
“Traffic should remain ground stopped until further notice,” the FAA said in an advisory. “International flights will be managed on a case by case basis.”
What’s happening now • Nationwide ground stop: All flight departures in the United States have been halted after a major telecommunications outage posed safety concerns, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The issue stems from a problem with network routers that cascaded nationwide, an airline source told CNN.
• Travel nightmare: Airlines and passengers are figuring out their next steps as thousands of flights are delayed or canceled. The number of impacted trips has surged as the hours-long ground stop continues.
• No timetable for resolution: Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin warned that there’s no known time frame for resolving the issue and that he expects an extended process.
• No known threat: Mullin said the ground stop did not stem from a threat to the US and was not linked to this week’s disruptive Microsoft outage. Preliminary reports indicate this was not a cyberattack, law enforcement sources told CNN. President Donald Trump has been briefed.
From yesterday:
Hey Claude, is runway 5 free?
“Oops, sorry. You’re absolutely right to question that. Runway 5 did have a plane already on it with 254 passengers on board. Would you like me to assist with notifying their next of kin?”
FAA denies it’s related to the new system. they say it’s a communication equipment outage.
so 🤷
OMG, people are going to die because of this.
Did they lose the floppy disc?
I hope every flight attendant and pilot remembers to thank the passengers for flying Trump air
Did the FAA ask its new AI to “safely bring back online the Air Route Traffic Control Centers without breaking anything else. Make no mistakes!” ?
The AI discovered that over 99% of catastrophic aircraft incidents occur while the aircraft is in motion, and it then devised a way to prevent all incidents.
Yes, but they did not ask nicely.
They forgot to ask for breast size
Uh, holy shit.
I’m pretty sure the last time this happened was 9/11, right?
There was one other incident in 2023.
There was a 90 minute ground halt in 2023 because of a fuck up. They also closed down the airspace around El Paso in 2025 because of a fuckup involving idiot admin officials playing with a military laser. So I’m gonna guess this is either something really fucking scary or really fucking stupid.
Is the FAA using Starshield for their communication?
I wonder what type of extraterrestrial invader the conspiracy people will blame it on.
My sincere fear with this is that it means Trump is about to launch a colossal attack on Iran that he knows will result in retaliation that will, in fact, harm Americans domestically and significantly so.
I’m so tired of this demented pedophile sack of shit and the limp dick Dems who refuse to resist him.
While he very well might be planning some major attack on Iran … I really can’t really see Iran having the logistics capability and/or long-range weapons to do much damage on American soil.
seems like they should have stuck with the floppies.
I wonder if this is going to be the thing that gets congresspeople to wake the fuck up and start taking the corruption and incompetence seriously, now that it’s personally inconveniencing them?
Never fear, Mark Wayne Mullen, Stupidland Security, is here…on second thought, maybe start panicking.
so does ground stop mean: if you’re in air, continue. if not yet in air, sit and wait?
Unless it’s international, apparently that’s case by case
Don’t you love when government runs on AI coded slopware?
