US flights grounded due to FAA systems outage

Flights in the United States are grounded due to a critical computer outage at the Federal Aviation Administration. NBC’s Tom Costello reports for TODAY on what the agency is doing to fix the issue. 

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[NSXtacy-]

Someone who works in IT for the FAA obviously attempted to automate their job using Chat GPT! Lol

[arniedomingo]

A similar "outage" happened in the Philippines last week. All flights to and from NAIA, the main airport in Manila were put on hold and grounded. Coincidence?

[NoAim-mi]

“Enemy counter UAV is up, our radars are jammed”-Allegiance (MW 2019)

[moodmeow]

No bailouts for the airline industry. They had record profits, and have plenty of money to update their systems. They just didn't do it and instead gave millions in bonuses to their CEOs. NO BAILOUT

[theresadaughterofthemosthi]

AS A UBER DRIVER IM STILL GOING TO WORK AT AIRPORT PRAYIN SOMEONE NEEDS A RIDE CROSS STATE 😅😅

[jamiefinney]

This whole thing says, they were hacked, and are embarrassed to admit their system security is horrible.

[CajunJules]

Same thing happened to me in 2014 while I was in Chicago taking a connecting flight to MSP. I ended sleeping on a cot in a huge room with others who had the same thing happen to them. Sleeping in a room with at least 100 strangers from all over the world was not a good night's sleep! Finally got out later the next day.

[randallsmerna]

How does the FFA have an outage? It's either planned control or incompetence.

[Blondie]

This hasn't happened since September 11..

[Novnal]

Hello, yes, US flights were suspended due to a broken FAA system. Is there a solution now?

[ekd]

1:47 What’s wrong with the weather in the Pacific Northwest? It’s really nice here for January.

[chaseme]

This was an attack! These "outages" have been happening. I have also noticed a lot of military helicopters in the last week (2-3 a day), which is a super rare occurrence where I live. Something big is coming.

[nikia]

Great, another thing to worry about... Is flights out of the contry fine by any chance?

[bb]

Flying these days is just NOT that dependable anymore. I will drive thank you. Have a great day and stay safe.

[erauprcwa]

Fun Fact: Most pilots don't read NOTAMS to the extent that most people think or believe, ESPECIALLY airline pilots.

[javierbarrucz]

System outage unbelievable 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮 3:03

[JuanRodriguez-jlft]

Transportation department run by people with no experience on transportation.

[johnjriggsarchery]

And when cars are all linked to some master computers... Those of us with older vehicles that are offline and start with an actual key will still be rolling along.

[Rdouglas]

More military operations, just like the ground stop they issued January 2, they say that was due to a "computer issue" which was not true.

[thejehosahphatexperiment]

Couldn’t matter less if we just had more HSR (domestically)