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.
Can you fill in the blanks here? "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?"
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.
"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"
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.
Radar outage:
https://www.weather.gov/afc/radaroutage
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.
How do a bunch of separate radars all go down at the same time? Aren't they spread around the US?
I'm thinking it was "the website went down" issue.
I think I remember seeing an article here about air traffic controller systems moving off of 3.5" diskettes. Related ?
"upgrade to cds. make no mistakes"
No, my guess is cyber attack from a state we've been making false accusations against.
Which one?
Can you fill in the blanks here? "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?"
Is this the first such case since 9/11?
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.
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.
no, there was one in 2023 when a pilot notification system went down
Some more discussion on source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50489641
Related:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50489641
Something with frequency of ATC signals?
earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50489641