[Answer: see debunk - US planes grounded by FAA - communications issue NOT a safety issue - can still communicate for landing - stopped take off for easier communications - all planes safe - nothing to suggest attack - one possibility - to do with roll out of SMART fuel saving AI from Washington DC - to 22 centers - (Secretary of Homeland Security Mullin press briefing) - to post:] ◀ Well it looks all planes are down also

JarodPorter

https://www.axios.com/2026/11/13/faa-nationwide-ground-stop This is getting me very panicky first the air force bases being attacked now this a ground stop this rarely happens i am worried there’s a threat of the USA being attacked

Ugipacman

This one already been resolved and been told everything is okay @JarodPorter and trump wouldn’t use a nuke it wouldn’t work in Iran

Callumrrichards7472

JarodPorter saw this, was worried too, about to come here to ask about this til I read a little more.

Clearly Unrelated to the air force base stuff.

Just an edit because I know cyber attacks are talked about a lot in this group right now, not every technical issue is bound to be a cyber attack, this is likely a regular technical issue rather than anything human orchestrated.

It’s irritating that axios doesn’t want to mention this tweet despite being detrimental to the context of the situation.

Ugipacman

Also they are thing the FAA is just ole equipment at the moment not ruling out cyber attacks but still not top of list

Mysterious-Trash3324

@Robert-Walker Bump!!!!

JarodPorter

Callumrrichards7472 I hope it is I am worried about cyber attacks or that it could be drone threats

Callumrrichards7472

JarodPorter wouldn’t be drone threats as to have technicians there they must have identified the issue already, as stated, it’s related to communication between air traffic control, there’s a report a bit above this one that says the white house has also started asking for billions to be put towards upgrading their “aging” air traffic control tech, most likely this is not a cyber attack and just a result of equipment we already know is aging..

Mysterious-Trash3324

Callumrrichards7472 thank you… as someone who lives in a big American city I’m panicked

Callumrrichards7472

Mysterious-Trash3324 you’re very welcome, I understand the worry, it seems like they’re working on a resolution for this issue now, so my theory is they’ve found the issue and it’s nothing to worry about at all.

JarodPorter

Callumrrichards7472 I hope so

Callumrrichards7472

Callumrrichards7472 for reference this is the report stating that the white house has requested funding for aging atc systems.

It’s also worth mentioning that a similar thing happened in 2023 when a pilot notification system went down, forcing a nationwide grounding.

Ignore the headlines saying this is the first time it happened since 9/11 as that’s factually not true.

RobertMcCluce

@Robert-Walker @stevie-mccarthy 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁

Robert-Walker

From the BBC, Halted traffic in Chicago first because of Air traffic control.

Planes are landing normally.

They were told Several impacts on ATC frequencies and / or radar capabilities

Sean Duffy: FAA technicians are investigating the issue. We will provide immediate updates when we have them.

Seems to start on East Coast and spread to the West.

Earlier update:

Robert-Walker

US Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullin

He says there is no indication this was an attack against the United States.

“This is a telecommunications outage,” he says.

“All the flights are accounted for,” he says.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6z9dwn12037t?post=asset%3Ad8f4a698-7ad5-4a6b-9402-c93af5409043#post

Robert-Walker

From Secretary of Home Security Mullin: They haven’t discussed any time frame - to get flights up again will take some time. Not turned around within the hour. Everyone is safe and flights accounted for and no fear for the public. They don’t know what happened yet. Going through to find out and then will say what to do. It sounds like the communications have got overwhelmed. It is a telecommunications outage. The FAA was rolling out a new AI system today and they are looking at that. There is redundancy in most communications. Planes are still landing but out of an abundance of caution they need care.

There’s two areas inside the USA that are still able to communicate just fine.

Every agency that has an asset involved in it are working together to solve it. They are well positioned and communicating very well. The president has given the assets they need to take it forward.

They don’t know what has caused it. They won’t make assumptions they deal with facts and as they have them will roll them out.

Robert-Walker

Full press briefing

vmpyrdrows

sadly im having a really bad anxiety attack seeing all the fearmongering over this ): if anyone could help me believe that everything will be okay id appreciate that, its been a shitty day for my OCD too

JarodPorter

vmpyrdrows it has for mine also

vmpyrdrows

JarodPorter well it helps a little to know im not alone in my OCD struggles (it really does suck, hoping to get therapy and maybe get on some medication soon) so maybe it will help you too? i’ve had it for most of my life and there are bad and good days. one thing that always helps me is taking a shower like i just did an hour ago, and then i made myself some lunch. (:

karliworriesabouteverything

Mine has been really bad today too. I just about managed some food tonight and was starting to feel a bit more ok, then saw this. Now coming out of a panic attack.

Inhavent been on social media and not going too. My google ai is telling me telecommunications glitch or something.

😔