As of thirty-ish minutes ago ALL commercial air traffic in the US is grounded until further notice.
Anyone got any idea what’s going on? There are very free details about the situation I can find online right now.
Fucking poorly implementing a shitty AI system that should not be running anything let alone Air Traffic
Republicans only know how to break things.
We never had these kinds of outages before they got rid of DEI.
IMO theyre keeping it under wraps for one of these reasons:
- it was an attack and they dont want panic
- it was yet another huge failure of “ai” bullshit and they can’t upset shareholders any longer so need to keep secret
- it was floppies
There’s no official word, but to add some context, the FAA deployed a new AI-powered computer system for air traffic control yesterday.
Again, no proof that that’s what’s going on. But it sure is interesting.
They’ve officially denied this as being related.
So it probably is.
I was on a flight when everything was grounded. I asked the pilot and he could neither confirm nor deny that it’s aliens.
My connecting flight was cancelled so I split a $600 Uber with four strangers
So… its aliens.
My theory: Trump Admin hired someone incompetent and they fucked up the comms. I mean that just the theme of trump admins basically
My hot take:
We all know Trump has dementia.
So he just walked out in the evening and boarded a plane, not knowing where to. The others didn’t see him leaving, so they didn’t know either.
When he messaged to his folks that he is going to take off in a minute, they grounded everything immediately, just to be sure.
Then it took them only 4 hours because they are the world’s smartest ones.
I imagine secret service agents follow the president around like they’re glued to him. I doubt it’s possible to ever lose track of the president.
Tracked by smell alone
I just now read regional traffic control centers, which link all the others, got overloaded with data traffic because the FAA communication system is a patchwork mess - multiple generations of new tech integrated with old legacy systems and each other over a long span of time. That kind of setup can be nursed and prodded along for years by dedicated maintainers, but at some point the upside-down Slurpee cup that’s been holding up one end of the shelf crumples and everything falls on the floor.
It was fine until these dumbfucks pushed AI without testing it. Who are you trying to glaze?
Well the news places just had a story a day or two ago about how they were rolling out AI air traffic control systems nationwide. Could be that their new AI shit the bed right away
The AI is prioritizing safety by not letting anyone fly.
Plane-to-plane collisions can be drastically reduced if we only allow one plane to fly at a time.
Outlook and Teams outage /s
Honestly wouldn’t be surprised if air traffic control is run off of one massive excel document
