I’m beginning to suspect that firing all the people who know how to write code and replacing them with an autocomplete bot may have been a bad move.
Only VFR(visual flight rules) flights are being allowed.
I mean, if it’s some kind of intentional infrastructure attack on the US, this date might have been chosen for a reason.
Speaking of which, was it ever confirmed that the date of the 9/11 attacks was specifically chosen because it evoked the emergency number? It always seemed kind of silly to me.
What are the chances this has to do with knock-on effects from the Microsoft outage yesterday? Could resolving such an outage (or failing to fix it) have impacted communications like this?
I’m pretty sure they chose the date because Tuesday is the day with the fewest passengers in the air, and the number was a coincidence (especially since most of the world would think of it as 11/9).
I hope this was a cyberattack. Much better than the thought that the system is so rickety that it can just collapse on its own.
The more I think about it the more I’m thinking it’s probably an AI-related fuckup nobody knows how to fix.
IIRC the forecast of clear weather was also said to have been a factor.
I’ve been watching CNN on this, and it seems they are just working up to getting rid of floppy disks, so it is as rickety as it seems. The comment was that since passengers think the system is working fine, there is no drive in Congress for spending the big bucks to upgrade.
Hegseth is apparently in the Situation Room, Mullin is holding pressers in the West Wing and conferring with Duffy. Trump has been briefed. Man, to be a fly on the wall in the WH right now, you’d be the smartest guy in the room.
The smartest guy who works in the WH regularly is the janitor.
Maybe we should draft him (good bet it’s a him) for President?
Wonder if this will affect football this weekend, notably college teams that are flying tonight.
Eta: I know it’s not the biggest deal in the world, just wondering out loud.
Of course, if it affected real football (what you heathens call Soccer) it would be.
It may not objectively be a big deal but a lot of people would be pretty unhappy about it, which might pressure the system to update its infrastructure.
Not going to deny being a heathen, but bear in mind that the peoples that invented the game were the first to call it soccer.
We never called it Soccer in Argentina
Something else that’s puzzling me: if it’s just a transportation issue and nothing nefarious, why is the Secretary of Homeland Security holding the presser and not the Secretary of Transport? I mean, Duffy is literally a media creation, wouldn’t he be the one to talk to the media if given the choice between him and Halfwit Mullin?
I saw several aircraft with European destinations on FlightRadar that appear to have taken off recently (after the ban) so this is likely correct.
Taking the chance to grandstand?