The FAA has grounded all flights in the United States. (Update: The grounding ended this evening)
The cause is at this point unknown, it appears to be a cascade of failures that shut down various radio communications and ATC radars.
In what is likely not a coincidence, this all happened the same day that the FAA rolled out its AP powered Strategic Management of Airspace, Routes and Trajectories (SMART) system, which is intended to provide predictive rerouting around things like weather and congestion.
While correlation is not causation, this whole thing reminds me of a quote about the George W.Bush Administration:
But it does inspire in me the desire for a competition; can anyone, particularly the rather more Bush-friendly recent arrivals to the board, give me one single example of something with the following three characteristics:
- It is a policy initiative of the current Bush administration
- It was significant enough in scale that I'd have heard of it (at a pinch, that I should have heard of it)
- It wasn't in some important way completely f#$@ed up during the execution.
Those 3 points apply to the Trump administration in spades.
This was not a random failure. It was likely triggered by incompetence, corruption, or delusion. (Or maybe all of them)
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