28 comments

  • andrewgioia 3 hours ago

    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 3 hours ago
      • 1970-01-01 3 hours ago

        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 2 hours ago

          The floppy disk upgrade went wrong

        • ddtaylor 3 hours ago

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

          • 1970-01-01 3 hours ago

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

        • Aperocky 2 hours ago

          weather radar still works for weather channels..

      • O5vYtytb 2 hours ago

        I can still access NOAA radars just fine.

    • micah94 2 hours ago

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

      • tosapple 2 hours ago

        microsoft yesterday, funny.

        • latentsea an hour ago

          Jensen the day before that, funny.

    • jmclnx 3 hours ago

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

      • neko_ranger 3 hours ago

        "upgrade to cds. make no mistakes"

      • gosub100 3 hours ago

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

        • junga 2 hours ago

          Which one?

          • majorchord an hour ago

            Too many enemies to guess at this point

        • GolfPopper an hour ago

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

        • ashdksnndck 2 hours ago

          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 3 hours ago

    Is this the first such case since 9/11?

    • dole 3 hours ago

      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 3 hours ago

      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 3 hours ago

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

  • ranger_danger an hour ago

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

  • RickJWagner an hour ago

    First, the Microsoft outage. Now this.

    Extraordinary.

  • ChrisArchitect 3 hours ago

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

  • jmclnx 3 hours ago
  • promptsupporter 3 hours ago

    Something with frequency of ATC signals?

  • dmitrygr 3 hours ago