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Re:All US airports are currently ground stopped by datas on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:11PM (#50489700)
What are all the possible reasons to do this?

Has this ever happened?

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Re:All US airports are currently ground stopped by tencentshill on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:12PM (#50489723)
A credible threat from Iran? More likely a technical issue.

Happened in 2023 https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-notam-statement

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Re:All US airports are currently ground stopped by lobf on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:14PM (#50489766)
It happened on 9/11, didn’t it?
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Re:All US airports are currently ground stopped by stmw on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:17PM (#50489822)
yes, 9/11
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Re:All US airports are currently ground stopped by Jtsummers on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:48PM (#50490350)
[delayed]
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Re:All US airports are currently ground stopped by ceejayoz on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:47PM (#50490335)
Jan 2023 was the most recent nationwide one.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/11/faa-orders-airlines-to-pause...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_FAA_system_outage

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Re:All US airports are currently ground stopped by NooneAtAll5 on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:51PM (#50491264)
previous time it happened right before chinese baloon made the news

it may be something similar - remove all random, but controllable sources of radar return for military to start scanning

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