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The story
On the 13th, US Transportation Secretary Duffy announced on X that the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) had issued a ground stop order covering airports nationwide. The cause was described only as “a communications issue affecting all air route traffic control centers,” with no further details given. According to CNN, this is the first nationwide ground stop since January 2023, and before that the only precedent was after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks — an extraordinary situation. On 5ch, reactions ranged from practical worries about how the 3,100 aircraft still airborne would land, to speculation about the cause.
[WASHINGTON, Kyodo] US Transportation Secretary Duffy announced on X (formerly Twitter) on the 13th that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had issued a ground stop order for airports across the United States. He said the cause was “a communications issue affecting all air route traffic control centers.” According to CNN, this is the first nationwide ground stop since January 2023.
In his post, Duffy explained that “FAA technical staff are investigating.” Further details remain unknown.
According to CNN, the only time a nationwide ground stop had been issued before January 2023 was after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the US.
Source: 47news.jp / Original article here
What people said
Can't say there's absolutely no connection, I guess.
Might be that DOCOMO 5G thing. (NTT DOCOMO, a major Japanese carrier)
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2121338192419074048/vid/avc1/720×1280/x-bGYEf3DKC0H7r-.mp4
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2121346617055772672/vid/avc1/720×1280/VwpTjLJp6hSl24_6.mp4
Tanker collides with cruise ship on the Mississippi River
If it turns out the tanker's controls got hijacked too, that'd be insane.
They'd better hurry with the rescue
there are sharks in the Mississippi River.
It's not "whoa, main" — main. (mocking a New Orleans/Cajun drawl, where "main" is slang for "man")
https://x.com/flightradar24/status/2121352399704989835
"3,100 aircraft bound for US airports are in the air"
guess they can't land then.
What is this guy even talking about.
No wonder it's losing to China.
If it were China they'd just keep flying without a care and you'd get a storm of crashes everywhere.
When it comes to technology, Japan's still number one after all.
Fax machines, you mean?
https://imgur.com/9UAYAzx.jpeg
https://imgur.com/c6PBKIB.jpeg
This is actually a pretty scary situation.
Did the tanker just ram into it by accident?
This is honestly at the level where it deserves its own separate thread.
https://imgur.com/GmZaDiD.jpeg
If the cruise ship hadn't been there, wasn't it on course to slam straight into the shore?
XP was the most stable one, right?
Didn't it say something like "update complete"?
If anything, that was the safer, more reliable option.
These days wars don't just start with missiles suddenly flying in, you know.
If a modern World War III actually broke out, what are we even supposed to do?
Does that mean switching off your PC matters more than running to a shelter?
Good news for people without a PC?
If a nuke goes off, the EMP fries all your electronics.
Background and Key Points of This Story
A nationwide ground stop like this is exceptionally rare — the last one was in January 2023, and before that the only precedent was after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the US. The January 2023 incident was caused by a malfunction in the NOTAM (Notice to Air Missions) system, but this time Transportation Secretary Duffy has only described the cause as a “communications issue,” with no further details released. Some thread posters speculated about a possible hack, but that remains pure speculation, not a confirmed fact from the official announcement. Around the same time, videos of a tanker colliding with a cruise ship on the Mississippi River were also posted, mixing in an unrelated topic — readers should note this incident has nothing to do with the communications outage and isn’t the same event. Also worth noting: a ground stop halts new departures, but it doesn’t itself prohibit aircraft already in the air from landing.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (News Flash+) thread “Nationwide Ground Stop at US Airports — Transportation Secretary Cites “Communications Issue”.”
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