As of thirty-ish minutes ago ALL commercial air traffic in the US is grounded until further notice.
Anyone got any idea what’s going on? There are very free details about the situation I can find online right now.
As of thirty-ish minutes ago ALL commercial air traffic in the US is grounded until further notice.
Anyone got any idea what’s going on? There are very free details about the situation I can find online right now.
It could be something totally innocuous. Last time this happened it was because one engineer pushed an update that broke everything, iirc.
You mean the clownstrike?
Ha hahahhaha
Hahahhahahha
FAA ATC isn’t using computers that can even run Crowdstrike, so they were safe from that.
Also those aren’t the kind of systems where you would “push an update”, so the commenter I was replying to I assume was referring to that. Which did cause a ton of groundings. But not due to FAA/ATC systems, rather due to windows boxes operated by the carrier’s personnel.
Just to be clear: I wasn’t laughing at the poster, but at the ATC’s incredibly outdated (but until recently reliable) computers.
Do they still run shit written in assembly and allowed FORTRAN for faster and easier coding?