yet

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/faa-issues-national-ground-stop-due-extraordinary-circumstance-reasons-safety-2026-11-13/

[Edited on November 13, 2026 at 4:26 PM. Reason : we got set em up the bomb]

https://www.fly.faa.gov/ois/oisedit/adv_oisedit_dis?number=111&day=11132026&gdp=-1&gstop=196093

[Edited on November 13, 2026 at 4:27 PM. Reason : guess it's over?]

11/13/2026 4:25:45 PM

Looks like it runs until 11:30 PM EDT (04:30 UTC)

11/13/2026 4:52:22 PM

Supposed to be heading to the airport in a few minutes but I guess I'll stay home

11/13/2026 5:14:49 PM

Looking like a communications issues between regional centers.

Anyone want to give odds on whether this was caused by a guy running a backhoe?

11/13/2026 5:20:59 PM

Where were you flying, rwoody?

11/13/2026 6:01:14 PM

Is it something with the wider air traffic assist rollout that happened this week?

11/13/2026 6:08:11 PM

11/13/2026 6:09:33 PM

rwoody pwnt

11/13/2026 6:09:42 PM

^^^^your area actually, will miss a funeral it seems like (and more importantly my family all gathered)

Luckily I hadn't left my house yet

11/13/2026 6:18:44 PM

^^
Part 2 = Stay Home!

But sorry for your misfortune, would-be traveler.

11/13/2026 6:20:17 PM

This and the Microsoft outage are probably political hit jobs tbh #ISWIDT

11/13/2026 6:22:48 PM

^^this guy got it

11/13/2026 6:30:41 PM

Stolen

Quote :

"My cousin is an air traffic controller and he just texted me to say that the ground stop on US flights is because they just connected Grok to FAA systems and it keeps routing flights to Epstein Island. "

11/13/2026 6:33:59 PM

Sorry for your loss, rwoody. My deepest sympathies go to you and your family.

11/13/2026 6:56:18 PM

Thank you

11/13/2026 7:20:06 PM

I want to echo EMCE and wish rwoody my best

11/13/2026 7:29:21 PM

Bless your heart (positive)

11/13/2026 7:55:51 PM

I'd like to take this opportunity to say that I have a woody

11/13/2026 8:04:14 PM

At the airport :fingers crossed: gonna be a late night

11/13/2026 9:50:05 PM

got my fingers crossed for you!

[Edited on November 13, 2026 at 9:53 PM. Reason : I'm not into supernatural mumbo jumbo but you know what I mean.]

11/13/2026 9:52:34 PM

Bless YOUR heart too (also positive)

May science be with us?

11/13/2026 9:57:46 PM

Science dammit!

11/13/2026 10:04:10 PM

Damnit that gif is long as hell, I thought it was just praise science


Science dammit indeed!

11/13/2026 10:06:27 PM

EMCE can you come pick me up

11/14/2026 1:44:14 AM

Yah. Where did you fly into?

DCA, BWI, Dulles?

11/14/2026 6:11:25 AM

Oh sorry my good buddy JDV picked me up

11/14/2026 9:03:24 AM

S'ok.

Watch your cornhole, dude.



[Edited on November 14, 2026 at 9:18 AM. Reason : he's gonna try to take your butt]

11/14/2026 9:17:09 AM

https://twitter.com/L3HarrisTech/status/2121681707526918410

Quote :

"L3Harris has been modernizing the communications infrastructure supporting the National Airspace System in close coordination with the FAA. With safety and reliability as our highest priorities, L3Harris, together with its telco partners and the FAA, has completed more than 70% of the planned airspace communications conversion from legacy copper wires to a fiber optic system. We are supporting the FAA in its investigation to understand the conditions that led to the Nov. 13 ground stop of our nation’s air travel. L3Harris takes the nationwide ground stop and its impact on travelers, airlines and air traffic operations seriously."

since emce brought up L3Harris figured we might as well mention their alleged role in yesterday's shenanigans. i'm still curious to know whether any "software update" was associated with whatever copper/fiber equipment replacement was going on, or if it really was just they rebooted switches/routers as part of the hardware migration and they choked (due to what? effect of increased bandwidth? old firmware? old hardware?)

11/14/2026 3:27:06 PM

1) L3 is known in the industry for doing subpar work...this isn't too surprising.

2) From what I understand, their contract was to update 1G analog copper wires with fiber. They were also replacing routers. I wonder if a newer or misconfigured router started overloading surrounding routers.

3) I don't think we will ever get an honest accounting from this administration

[Edited on November 14, 2026 at 3:36 PM. Reason : h]

11/14/2026 3:35:38 PM

Quote :

"I don't think we will ever get an honest accounting from this administration"

probably not, unless the truth turns out to also serve as a useful scapegoat

[Edited on November 14, 2026 at 4:09 PM. Reason : $50B seems pretty useful...]

11/14/2026 4:03:45 PM