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.
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The floppy disk upgrade went wrong
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How do a bunch of separate radars all go down at the same time? Aren't they spread around the US?
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I'm thinking it was "the website went down" issue.
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weather radar still works for weather channels..
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I can still access NOAA radars just fine.
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Homeland Security saying "telecommunications" outage. But nothing more at this point...
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microsoft yesterday, funny.
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Jensen the day before that, funny.
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I think I remember seeing an article here about air traffic controller systems moving off of 3.5" diskettes. Related ?
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"upgrade to cds. make no mistakes"
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No, my guess is cyber attack from a state we've been making false accusations against.
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Which one?
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Too many enemies to guess at this point
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So, "We have met the enemy and he is us?"
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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"?
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First, the Microsoft outage. Now this.
Extraordinary.
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Is this the first such case since 9/11?
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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.
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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.
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no, there was one in 2023 when a pilot notification system went down
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Could this be related to what caused Outlook to go down?
HN.zip
https://www.weather.gov/afc/radaroutage
Extraordinary.
"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.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50489641