A national radar outage would do it. This would be a bigger story. Everyone needs it to forecast. However it doesn't seem to actually be offline. So I don't think it was a very long outage if it did go down.
gscott 2 hours ago [-]
The floppy disk upgrade went wrong
ddtaylor 3 hours ago [-]
How do a bunch of separate radars all go down at the same time? Aren't they spread around the US?
1970-01-01 3 hours ago [-]
I'm thinking it was "the website went down" issue.
Aperocky 2 hours ago [-]
weather radar still works for weather channels..
O5vYtytb 2 hours ago [-]
I can still access NOAA radars just fine.
3 hours ago [-]
micah94 2 hours ago [-]
Homeland Security saying "telecommunications" outage. But nothing more at this point...
tosapple 2 hours ago [-]
microsoft yesterday, funny.
latentsea 53 minutes ago [-]
Jensen the day before that, funny.
jmclnx 3 hours ago [-]
I think I remember seeing an article here about air traffic controller systems moving off of 3.5" diskettes. Related ?
3 hours ago [-]
neko_ranger 3 hours ago [-]
"upgrade to cds. make no mistakes"
gosub100 3 hours ago [-]
No, my guess is cyber attack from a state we've been making false accusations against.
junga 3 hours ago [-]
Which one?
majorchord 1 hours ago [-]
Too many enemies to guess at this point
GolfPopper 59 minutes ago [-]
So, "We have met the enemy and he is us?"
ashdksnndck 3 hours ago [-]
Can you fill in the blanks here? My attempt: "China would never spy on us, but because of the implication they would put 50k of our citizens currently in the air in mortal danger"?
United857 3 hours ago [-]
Is this the first such case since 9/11?
dole 3 hours ago [-]
No.
"January 11, 2023. All U.S. departing flights were halted for several hours after a computer outage crashed the FAA's Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) pilot notification system"
9/11, 2023 and today are the only three times.
Jtsummers 3 hours ago [-]
9/11 was different, that also required all planes to land, more or less, as quickly as possible and not continue to their destinations (unless that was timely, I suppose). This one is a departure ground stop, no more planes going up. Planes in the air haven't been ordered to land yet.
KPGv2 3 hours ago [-]
no, there was one in 2023 when a pilot notification system went down
ranger_danger 1 hours ago [-]
Could this be related to what caused Outlook to go down?
https://www.weather.gov/afc/radaroutage
"January 11, 2023. All U.S. departing flights were halted for several hours after a computer outage crashed the FAA's Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) pilot notification system"
9/11, 2023 and today are the only three times.
Extraordinary.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50489641