FAA lifts ground order on flights after
two-and-a-half hours: White House says
'no evidence of cyberattack' behind computer
failure that delayed at least 4,000 flights
and halted America's air traffic for the
first time since 9/11
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Jennifer Smith &
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
1/11/2023 9:23:20 AM
All flights across America were grounded today for the first time since 9/11 after a crucial FAA computer system that pilots use to access flight plans and communicate with air traffic control crashed overnight.
The first complaints by passengers that their flights had been grounded started at around 4am EST. It wasn't until 6.30am that the FAA announced it had grounded all flights.
By 9am, the issue had been resolved and flights were beginning to take off again. But the hours-long pause sent the day's travel into chaos that is expected to last throughout the day.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/11/2023 9:44:44 AM (No. 1375839)
Waking up early enough to be at the airport for a 6:30 flight only to be informed that there was a four hour grounding would make me swear off flying altogether, if I hadn't already done it 20 years ago. The airlines took a downhill turn in the 1980s and they have never come back from that.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 1/11/2023 9:48:50 AM (No. 1375845)
Probably ChiCom or Russian government hackers, warming up.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
sanspeur 1/11/2023 9:51:05 AM (No. 1375849)
bet it’s the Russian payback for the pipeline sabotage. Xicoms have things here neatly sewed up here is ole slo joe ensconced. no need for this achita
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
ToryWhite 1/11/2023 10:15:15 AM (No. 1375876)
I think the U.S. government did this, I think Biden did it. Forget foreign actors. This is another muscle-flexing exercise on the part of the regime here. Like the kill switches now mandated in new cars. They are readying to take it all. You heard it here.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
downnout 1/11/2023 10:15:24 AM (No. 1375877)
No cyberattack, just gross incompetence on the part of the administration.
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Mayor Pete is on top!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DrOstrow 1/11/2023 10:41:22 AM (No. 1375910)
In a few days the problem will be 'identified' as a 'glitch' - a decades old, made up term used
for years by computer engineers to answer management when they ask - 'what happened ?'
Translation of 'glitch' into english yields - we haven't got a clue what happened !
I wonder what kind of PC they're running this 'program' on, snort snort and what software
they're using. Got to be Windows, right ! ? Call Billy, he'll fix it ! Snort Snort chuckle !
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
RobertJ984 1/11/2023 10:45:00 AM (No. 1375915)
"No evidence"...yet
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Twinkle93 1/11/2023 10:45:38 AM (No. 1375916)
Mayor Pete is in charge and responsible.
He needs (out of his budget) to compensate the passengers that were delayed or missed flights.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
red1066 1/11/2023 10:49:04 AM (No. 1375921)
The issue of outdated computer and air traffic control system in this country is old news. It was an issue thirty years ago, and nothing has been done about it by any administration since.
4 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
mc squared 1/11/2023 10:51:43 AM (No. 1375924)
There was a time when I actually believed the FAA if it said there was a 'glitch'
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Ladyknowsalot 1/11/2023 10:53:38 AM (No. 1375928)
They are testing us. A mobile population cannot be controlled. How many people swore off flying after the holiday chaos? Now this totally unnecessary delay. The price of gasoline has curtailed auto travel for pleasure. Step back and see how our way of life is changing.
6 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
sunshinehorses 1/11/2023 10:56:11 AM (No. 1375932)
My brother was an air traffic controller in the military and then for the gov't after Reagan fired everyone. He worked in the tower until he was 60 and then as a trainer until he was 70. In the 1990's he would tell me about having to go down to the computer room at the base of the tower (a MAJOR hub) and having to replace bulbs to fix the system. He said the FAA was so far behind the times it was pitiful. I wonder if they ever really caught up.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
earlybird 1/11/2023 11:48:55 AM (No. 1375993)
In his must read 2015 book, The Hundred Year Marathon, China expert Dr. Michael Pillsbury included his educated prediction that the CCP would be able to attack the systems that control and facilitate our aircrafts’ flight capability - both military and domestic.
7 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
Bluefindad 1/11/2023 12:19:53 PM (No. 1376015)
By the way, who is John Galt?
8 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Skinnydip 1/11/2023 12:20:55 PM (No. 1376016)
Uh, actually #6 I believe Mayor Pete is on the bottom. He’s the wife. Unless…
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 1/11/2023 5:48:38 PM (No. 1376296)
Last I heard the FAA software was all ancient stuff written in the nearly extinct language of COBOL. At the government contractor where I used to work, we had some old, grey headed "COBOLers" who still knew how to write in this nearly heiroglyphic-era language. They pretty much all retired in the early 2000s. Finding anyone to even take the existing software and make a logic flow block diagram from it these days may require going to the old folks homes and see if anyone is still alive and sharp enough to do the translation.
IIRC the FAA spent huge sums of taxpayer money and a decade of time "getting new software written", and after many attempts to use it.....it failed so badly that they apparently abandoned it. That may not be the latest story, but never underestimate the FAA bureaucrats' ability to make a total disaster out of the simplest tasks.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
MickTurn 1/12/2023 10:46:16 AM (No. 1376967)
SO which clumsy moron tripped over the computer rack power cord and pulled it loose?
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