Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #groundstop, aggregated by home.social.
An accounting of the money that the FAA has already spent from the billions$ given to them through Trump's spending bill from summer 2025 would be nice.
Also, throwing more billions$ at them won't solve the problem of contractors deleting software files and cutting fiber-optic cable lines 😳
(Oh my, check out this article!)
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#MyThoughts #USA #USpol #FAA #GroundStop
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https://www.politico.com/news/2026/11/13/faa-orders-nationwide-grounding-of-passenger-planes-01166043
What they're claiming is pure and utter nonsense. They have no doubt pushed out many "patches" before on their "legacy" system and didn't break it.
They likely pushed the wrong patch for the "legacy" part of their system (that they've only partially updated w/ the tens of billions $ they were given by Congress) & then blamed it on the delivery system (copper vs fiber optic cable, because fiber is known to be faster/ better than copper wire).
The #FAA (US gov't) is playing the blame game now.
For example:
1) Copper wires vs. fiber optic cables: Which is the means of pushing out a software update, aka "patch," to "routers," but wouldn't solve the problem if it was the wrong patch to begin with
2) Congress: For not giving the FAA enough money (except it got tens of billions $ from Trump's "big, beautiful" bill in summer 2025, for which his people lavished great praise upon him, see below)
#Trump's #FAA claims #US flights should be back to normal by Sunday, though they expect more intermittent disruptions. They're blaming the #GOPedo controlled Congress for not giving them $30 billion more on top of the $15 billion they already approved to update FAA equipment, but allegedly Trump's maybe inept unnamed contractor caused the #groundstop when replacing copper wires with fiber optics on critical flight control systems. No AI or cyberattacks involved, yet.
https://apnews.com/article/ground-stop-flights-airlines-cancellations-faa-1fbf4992f0ddaa4c463b0e4990b6e291
"FAA has made progress implementing this initiative, but it could be prioritizing speed over costs and air traffic disruptions."
Its truly astounding that we have an administration blaming "old tech" for one of the biggest disruptions to travel since 9/11.
You own the building. Where's the work to improve that technology? What mitigation have you done to lessen the impact or severity?
You don't get a free pass on letting the basement fall into disrepair simply because "it was already a problem". You should have been working on this longer than yesterday.
It Took 4.5 Hours for Drumpf Gov Officials To Issue A Peep About Nationwide Air Travel Ground Stop, Leaving Millions Of Workers & Travelers In Dark.
Then they just got on mic and demanded more taxpayer money.
Americans stuck at airports had to rely on TV news, rumors and phone apps to learn anything at all. While commercial airlines were unable to officially confirm or deny the causes or reasoning for the #GroundStop that canceled unprecedented hundred$ of millions of dollars worth of flight disruptions.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c6z9dwn12037t #AirTravel #Airports #FAA #Outage #Delays #Safety #USGov #Airlines #Disruption
#Nepobaby plumber cum #DHS Secretary #DarryldarrylMullin and ‘prize-winning lumberjack’ cum #Transportation Secretary #SeanDuffy relay the warnings sent from the ‘#MAGA King’ #DonaldTheDeplorable #Trump that “This (#FAA #GroundStop nationwide) *will* happen again. Unless you give us *50 billion dollars!*” https://youtu.be/nv8W_k9AJyc
Queue Benny Hill soundtrack…
#Resist #kakistocracy in #USpol to #SaveAmerica.
RE: https://masto.ai/@Miro_Collas/117611339229121525
The #kakistocracy of the #Trump administration literally won’t fly. 🤷🏻♂️
#GroundStop #fascism in #USpol.
Sometimes you have to #FlushTwice.
🗳️ 🌊 🌊 💩 👉 🚽
I don't care what #SeanDuffy says. This administration lies about everything, especially when the truth makes them look bad. This #GroundStop is 100% a result of their policies, and that will come out.
The FAA ground stop halted US departures for over four hours. Officials blame overloaded routers, not SMART AI. Here is who was hit and what to do now.
#FAA #GroundStop #AirTrafficControl #SeanDuffy #SMART #AviationTech
RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/117612316413056666
Look, when I install the wrong driver, I don't start blaming my graphics card for not running properly. If you install something on a system that doesn't run on the system, that is YOUR fuckup. The blame doesn't lie with the system, nor with the people who installed the previous working version of the software. The system was running, you messed around with it, the system went down. These fucking alpha men, these testosterone bumpers, are fragile butterflies who can't take the lightest hit. Go to therapy and become better people or never darken my screen again.
The #FAA’s #AIrollout might be innocent, but deploying a billion dollar system into #criticalinfrastructure days before a nationwide #groundstop is spectacularly bad timing. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/us-airspace-shuts-down-faa-rolled-out-ai?Opinionated.EU #techopinion #tech #opinion
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But they did call for the #groundstop... at least there's that.
Hadn't even noticed the absence, but now I hear a plane taking off overhead. Happy Contrails! ✈️
Of course, then they had to grandstand and come off as if they were trying to cover up their mistakes (and I'm talking Duffy of the FAA in particular), so negative points there.
So that means negative points for messing it up to start with, positive points for following protocol, but then negative points again after that...
I say they're in the negative.
And I wonder about the economic toll for that mess (along with the many personal tolls).
To their credit, they did call for the nationwide groundstop and apparently followed protocols there, so at least that's good.
You have one job... 🤦♀️
RE: https://mstdn.social/@dalfen/117612293070297499
$50 billion might update systems and towers but won't necessarily fix lack-of-competence issues.
The #SeanDuffy & #MarkwayneMullin press conference about the #FAA #Groundstop was a joke.
I've illustrated what they said using these pics from the 1980 movie Airplane!
1) There was a problem with old 1980's radar system being overwhelmed by data from the new systems. (But it's NOT because of AI!)
2) It was NOT a Cyber attack! (But we can't rule it out!)
3) Duffy apologized for not wearing a suit. (He was busy doing pull ups with RFK Jr at an airport in DC earlier in the week.)
#ReasonsToPaceTheFloor is now trending across Mastodon
#GroundStop is now trending across Mastodon
Probability that DOGE cuts have played a role in today's #aviation #groundstop:
@cyberlyra I’ve seen people posting #GroundStop, surprised I haven’t seen anyone posting #GroundSlop
RE: https://beep.town/@initech/117611849742222394
Oh those MFs in #ATC forgot their damn TPS cover sheets, didn't they?
h/t to https://merveilles.town/@lrhodes/117612330026723295
"Again, this is speculative scenario, based on incomplete knowledge, but if it's anywhere in the ballpark… they DDOS'd themselves with AI."
the best simplest and stupidest explanation
We need a word for this level of self own.
What if the #GroundStop was not due to AI or hackers or even foreign meddling… but just to all the stupid, random and reckless DOGE techbro cuts to federal workers who provided services, research and maintenance? bit.ly/4kRuvrS
RE: https://wandering.shop/@tansy/117610085041581339
Peanut Hamper has been making the rounds. She also caused the aviation ground stop in the US today!
#StarTrek #GroundStop
Thinking of everyone headed to #STPH #startrekphilly and hoping travel was not completely thrown into chaos and delay with this #groundstop today. #trekwell, folks. bit.ly/4f9AzIF
My condolences to the SNL writers room in this trying time
According to Secretary of Transport Duffy, it was a problem with TDM "Time Delay Multiplexing".
Noooooo! 🤦♀️ 🧱
(maybe it was also just the CNN expert saying it was delay instead of division, but still...)
I think they used the wrong "patch" and bricked their own "routers" 😅
And Duffy (FAA) is using the incident to try to get tens of billions of dollars from Congress to upgrade the FAA's systems and towers.*
* And I don't disagree that the systems could / should be updated, but I think it's super lame for them to cover up their mistakes by blaming the old "legacy" system.
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(end of live news conference commentary)
#MyThoughts #USA #FAA #DHS #flights #GroundStop
@FrChazzz CNN is still keeping it rolling, probably just for the people at airport bars making a drinking game out of this.
- Take one shot everytime someone says Trump is greatest president
- Take two shots everytime someone blames the dems for outage
#GroundStop #WhiteHouseBriefing #FAA
Whereas you get to listen to #POTUS trying to exhort money from Congress that had been removed, misplaced, or DOGED out of system for the President’s personal vanity projects or to support ICE. Have fun listening y’all.
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/live/6-jBdt7kU-w?is=HLYn1peP2uJ7EGQT
They are running over themselves trying to get their story straight.
(referencing Duffy of FAA and Mullins of DHS at the live news conference, c/o CNN)
"what about our football teams that need to get to their weekend games all over the country?"
And the Secretary of Transport Duffy is basically saying the network outage happened because democrats didn't vote for the Big Beautiful Bill.
This FAA press conference is a clown show!
Duffy (FAA) also said that no newer systems were affected.
c/o CNN live news conference
It sounds like the government might have broken it (honestly, imo) and they are now blaming the "legacy" system.
Why?
Mullin (DHS) said that they tried to patch the old "legacy" system with "new" patches and it got "overwhelmed with data" (per Duffy of the FAA).
Duffy said he wants $50 billion to update FAA's systems and towers. Mullin said he doesn't think it was a foreign attack, but will keep investigating.
c/o CNN live news conference
If it turns out this was because of AI, can we call this a "Ground Slop" instead of "Ground Stop"
"Routers overloaded with data" 🤦♀️
#faa #groundstop
RE: https://mstdn.social/@dalfen/117612134561672964
The FAA says it was a "temporary telecommunications outage"* 🤔
Duffy (FAA) said "routers (which he changed to "switches) got "overloaded with data." 🤔
Then he went on at length about how Congress needs to fund the FAA more so that their telecommunications system to update hardware, software, telecommunication & towers.
CNN reports #GroundStop is lifted, but I haven't found a 2nd confirming source.
Update: Duffy said he lifted it
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* c/o CNN live FAA news conference
C-SPAN
@c-span.bsky.social
White House Briefing on FAA Ground Stop
Grounded US-bound planes crowd the tarmac at Toronto's Pearson Airport ...
Someone seriously pushed to prod on a Friday afternoon?
Found the problem.
The #DHS leader, ‘#DarryldarrylMullin or whatever his stupid name is, provides exactly zero information during a press briefing about the ongoing nationwide #GroundStop.
In fact, he confuses reporters by insisting they refer to #AI as #SI. https://boingboing.net/2026/11/13/faa-nationwide-ground-stop-mullin-si.html
In the #Trump #kakistocracy ‘SI’ stands for #SuperIdiot , and I expect to hear from several more of them before the #FAA chaos is resolved!
#25thAmendment NOW!
What is the root cause of the FAA problems
