FAA Halts All US Flights After Equipment Outage
All US airports are currently ground stopped
The FAA issued a nationwide ground stop, barring any flights from departing for US airports after an equipment outage. Aircraft already airborne are still cleared to land, and inbound international flights are handled case by case. Flightradar24 broke the news, and commenters quickly drew comparisons to developing-world infrastructure and questioned recent boasts about new AI software.
By order of the Federal Aviation Command Center, all airports are ground stopped. All departing traffic should remain ground stopped until further notice.
- stmw
Pilot forum discussion -
https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/674910-us-wide-ground-st...
- frutiger
"Frequency outage", I think that translates to radio communications not working, until "22 Zulu" aka 22:00 UTC, 5 PM ET.
- DavCreator
- treebeard901
Microsoft outage related??
- datas
What are all the possible reasons to do this?
Has this ever happened?