FAA Issues National Ground Stop

Re:FAA Issues National Ground Stop by nxobject on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:12PM (#50490711)

Secretary Mullin/DHS is confirming that this will likely be an extended outage...

> “This isn’t going to just be be resolved and turned around within the hour"

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/11/13/us/ground-stop-natio...

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Re:FAA Issues National Ground Stop by throwaway27448 on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:30PM (#50490975)

Must be pretty damn embarrassing

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Re:FAA Issues National Ground Stop by panick21_ on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:35PM (#50491056)

Man, having some high speed trains might be useful right about now.

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Re:FAA Issues National Ground Stop by apublicfrog on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:39PM (#50491100)

Surely high speed trains suffer from network wide monitoring outages too? I would imagine they're susceptable to similar issues.

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Re:FAA Issues National Ground Stop by tttthrowaway123 on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:40PM (#50491111)

Yes - see German trains going down for that reason a few months back:

https://www.reddit.com/r/germany/comments/1udup2j/trains_hal...

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Re:FAA Issues National Ground Stop by hcal on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:42PM (#50491146)

still, it would be nice to have an alternative as a backup.

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Re:FAA Issues National Ground Stop by bdangubic on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:46PM (#50491210)

bus

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Re:FAA Issues National Ground Stop by pkulak on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:44PM (#50491171)

Sure, but having a _second_ way to get places can only help.

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Re:FAA Issues National Ground Stop by GolfPopper on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:43PM (#50491164)

Why is the DHS secretary taking the lead on this? Shouldn't it be Transportation?

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Re:FAA Issues National Ground Stop by wickedsight on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:49PM (#50491241)

I guess it depends on what is actually going on. And nobody really seems to know that right now apart from the shit having hit the fan.

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Re:FAA Issues National Ground Stop by rurp on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:57PM (#50491338)

I did see another statement where Mullin said this doesn't look like a malicious act, which just makes it even more weird that he's sort of taking point. Maybe the Real World actor leading transportation is in over his head?

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Re:FAA Issues National Ground Stop by taylorfinley on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:00PM (#50491364)

You want the guy from The Real World to fix this?

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Re:FAA Issues National Ground Stop by sigmarule on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:21PM (#50491567)

They may both be equally well-suited for the job...

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