8 comments

  • andrewgioia 3 hours ago

    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.

    • abnry 3 hours ago
      • 1970-01-01 2 hours ago

        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.

        • gscott 2 hours ago

          The floppy disk upgrade went wrong

          • ddtaylor 2 hours ago

            How do a bunch of separate radars all go down at the same time? Aren't they spread around the US?

            • 1970-01-01 2 hours ago

              I'm thinking it was "the website went down" issue.

            • Aperocky 2 hours ago

              weather radar still works for weather channels..

            • O5vYtytb 2 hours ago

              I can still access NOAA radars just fine.

            • micah94 2 hours ago

              Homeland Security saying "telecommunications" outage. But nothing more at this point...

            • jmclnx 2 hours ago

              I think I remember seeing an article here about air traffic controller systems moving off of 3.5" diskettes. Related ?

              • neko_ranger 2 hours ago

                "upgrade to cds. make no mistakes"

                • gosub100 2 hours ago

                  No, my guess is cyber attack from a state we've been making false accusations against.

                  • junga 2 hours ago

                    Which one?

                    • majorchord 1 hour ago

                      Too many enemies to guess at this point

                    • GolfPopper 1 hour ago

                      So, "We have met the enemy and he is us?"

                      • ashdksnndck 2 hours ago

                        Can you fill in the blanks here? My attempt: "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"?

                  • United857 2 hours ago

                    Is this the first such case since 9/11?

                    • dole 2 hours ago

                      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.

                      • Jtsummers 2 hours ago

                        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.

                        • KPGv2 2 hours ago

                          no, there was one in 2023 when a pilot notification system went down

                        • ranger_danger 1 hour ago

                          Could this be related to what caused Outlook to go down?

                          • RickJWagner 1 hour ago

                            First, the Microsoft outage. Now this.

                            Extraordinary.

                            • ChrisArchitect 2 hours ago

                              Some more discussion on source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50489641

                              • promptsupporter 3 hours ago

                                Something with frequency of ATC signals?

                                • jmclnx 2 hours ago
                                  • dmitrygr 2 hours ago