FAA Issues National Ground Stop

Re:FAA Issues National Ground Stop by randysalami on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:45PM (#50491189)

Do you think this signals some kind of malicious attack? The AI wars have begun... but more seriously, a massive escalation sets the stage for what this would look like. With AI agents, the blast zone is massive and an engineer's own agents can be turned against them through prompt injection. You take the negligence that has been thrust into our field by... actors and you create a target rich environment. I'm sure the only thing that's keeping things afloat is the power of diplomacy. But leverage can be used and maybe this is the first casualty (unless we include Microsoft from yesterday, but Microsoft is their own biggest enemy).

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Re:FAA Issues National Ground Stop by Jamesbeam on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:48PM (#50491230)

You need to go outside, take a walk and then have a hot chocolate.

All is well, this is not the AIpocalypse. Just some dude fucking up something stupid, as usual.

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Re:FAA Issues National Ground Stop by hypeman1 on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:56PM (#50491317)

This is a pretty reductive response given the circumstances.

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Re:FAA Issues National Ground Stop by Jamesbeam on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:08PM (#50491442)

If you prefer a more lengthy answer.

If there was an attack on your country, my phone wouldn’t stop ringing, just like it did 9/11.

All I am getting is pictures of baked cookies right now. So there is no attack on your country.

Planes are not falling out of the sky, as you can see on publicly available platforms. Nothing is exploding on the ground, besides the poor souls choosing Taco Bell for dinner.

I am confident you will not be abducted or murdered by Aliens today either, pinky promise.

So whatever happens is not an immediate danger to the planes still in the air. And no danger to anyone on the ground.

The most simple explanation is that the communication between ground and air is not working properly, and as this is necessary to safely fly thousands of planes simultaneously, they should rather stay on the ground for safety reasons until they figure out what is wrong.

If you have any specific concerns not addressed above, feel free to share them.

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Re:FAA Issues National Ground Stop by daishi55 on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:02PM (#50491382)

What possible basis could you have for saying this?

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Re:FAA Issues National Ground Stop by Jamesbeam on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:15PM (#50491523)

A decade of experience solving nationwide problems because someone somewhere did something stupid, before I retired.

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Re:FAA Issues National Ground Stop by llama052 on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:55PM (#50491308)

I'd be quicker to assume that the problem is within. AI related or not.

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