Airports across the country are at a standstill as a nationwide FAA outage that forced flights to remain grounded, causing chaos for travelers. NBC News’ Tom Costello reports.
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White House says no evidence of cyber attack in FAA outage, Biden briefed
Systems don’t malfunction on their own, who f@cked with it or when was it hacked, either way it’s negligent on the FAA’s part.
Ol Pete was quick to pass on threats to Southwest for their infrastructure problems! Quite the double standard.
Hurry up and leave the us they are under attack
They hacked by an outside party, or a known party who’s task it was to find exploits within our system. Either way this was something to do with national security.
@SBS.2 The buzz about looks like lots of people are suspicious. I really cannot, however, take a person who can’t be bothered to spell “because” out. That said, you could have answered my question instead of being an utter dingdong.
@TheHellFlower1 Look at you trying to be all cutting and edgy. Please, by all means tell me how your “discerning” eye has determined that the system was “hacked” versus it being a result of an out-date and ineffective system. Tell me, do you have more deep state theories BECAUSE it sounds as though you might.
@SBS.2 It’s plausible when you consider the fact that those nations have repeatedly engaged in cyber warfare against the United States. For instance, when the Chinese hacked the Office of Personnel Management and stole over 4 million records of federal employees, or when the Russians disabled Colonial Pipeline. It’s perfectly valid to suppose this was done by our adversaries.
@SBS.2 I’m not trying anything, booboo- spare us all your little tantrum. I asked you to answer a question first. Baffling folks with bs isn’t going to work out like you want it to every time.
@TheHellFlower1 Only person dishing the BS is yourself….boo boo. Now go play with Your dollies since that seems to be your vocabulary set.
In other news, Greta Thunberg will be happy as the carbon footprint will be lower today.
Today will be a mess.
Fox is probably trying to blame Pete B again.
Mayor Pete is a complete failure at his job. I wonder if we could get a few dollars to fix our infrastructure for Ukraine? Thanks barry and joey.
I’m a pilot, not sure if the information means anything to anyone but any departing flight would have gotten any relevant NOTAMS on their iPads before they left, and they go into airplane mode while flying so they downloaded the information before leaving, the problem is departing flights need to download that info and they can’t now that the system is down
The first problem is you are attempting to rationalize a “story” that is in the news.
@Herr Wahnsinn you don’t trust media people are a real laugh. The irony that you’re always watching news and commenting on it is not lost on the rational half of the population.
@Alink 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Could this be a result of hacking?
I once ended up playing chicken at an uncontrolled runway with another plane because I did not read Notices to Airmen (system that is down).😂
Geez, the Country is going down the Toilet since the Biden Administration
Entered the White House
This sounds like cyberwarfare
You all enjoying your late stage capitalism?
Hacked?
As with all computer problems, the solution is to call technical support in India.
I just flew around India. Their airlines are great. No problems.
@Karen Baxter leave it to an American to throw in some incognito racist jokes about their failing infrastructure, Healthcare, education, government etc. Gotta love the deflection 😂
The big question is.
Did NORAD or some other agency send out an alert of some kind to clear the air for better emergency viewing of possible problems?
Like from Russia, North Korea or someplace else?
Babylon is doing it’s work as promised.
We need to be less dependent on computer’s for the most important things.
The alt-right strikes again.
Bet the system is being attacked by hackers from our adversaries… Russia, China, Iran, or North Korea?
I highly doubt NK has these kinds of cyber capabilities, and I somewhat doubt that Iran has them.
We are at war with Russia anything can happen
I love reading the comments from all the people on here who claim to be tech experts even though they don’t even know how to re-install Facebook when they accidentally uninstall it.
and they say women are catty…
Super Scary !!!!!!
Another new store said 500 total
It’s amazing how many experts are commenting on this thread!! I figured you would all be bust trying to fix this problem since soon many of you sound like you know all there is to know about this situation!!
“thus”
@̊ what’s your point? Have you never had a spell check mistake before??? Go away
Looks like management found out how much operations budget they could cut before everything falls apart.
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 you keep telling yourself that. You will own nothing and be happy. Wake up sheep
sounds like a cyber attack…..
Cyber terrorism
Buttgig will blame this on climate change or maybe systematic racism.
They spend more time and money writing the fine print on why you won’t get a refund than they will on the problem.
Anything to avoid talking about Biden stolen documents
Looks like some planes are hindered. Great reporting very informative.
All flights across US grounded!!
this is when you put an incompetent homosexual in charge of transportation based on his sexual preferences rather than skills or experience.
Ukraine Russia war may spread worldwide, everyone stay away from virtual gold, you should rush for physical gold,,,,,,,,,,,
This hasn’t been done since the horrible jan 6th insurrection that killed thousands of innocent Americans. …. according to Nancy and Joe
Most inadequate administration ever
Nah Carter was worse
Russian hackers
Yeah, safety….never know when there’s a gremlin in the engine. 😎✌
Ps, landing never a issue as long as there is gravity though can understand form over function a bit.😜😎✌
Sounds to me like they are desperately trying to downplay this thing by saying it’s just a “slight delay”. It’s still early in the day. I lived through 9/11, things like this invariably get worse before they get better.
9-11? What a jump. What is this response lol
@Bryan Borochaner It’s me over reacting (probably)! Lol!
I feel so much better now than Pete Buttercheck is on it
Gives him a chance to go through luggage with that other it.
And you thought the Karens and Chads were triggered before all this.
Thanks CISA
I wonder if they’re gonna blame it on “climate change” or Putin
I don’t want to or need to fly I think people need to prepare for no flights period. It would make it easier to control our airspace and look for the bad guys. Mark my words
Good thing Pete isn’t nursing anymore so he can get the situation under control
Billions spent on an infrastructure bill & the rest of the country goes to shi!
Done on purpose
There’s a first time for everything.
I think it’s a 1/11 incident.
The meaning of the number eleven is important in that it can symbolize disorder, chaos and judgment. In the Bible, 11 is used twenty-four times and “11th” can be found 19 times.
Coming after 10 (which represents law and responsibility), eleven (11) represents the opposite, which is the irresponsibility of breaking the Law, which brings disorder and judgment.
America turning into one big toilet 😅
Southwest’s Revenge
Yes, my first thought is it a Russian cyber attack?
One phrase that hasn’t been mentioned.
Cyberterrorism.
This has to be hacking of government system. Foreign governments or worse are probing our systems.
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If there is a system outage, then how are they able to cancel all those flights, nationwide? Looks like communication worked canceling flights.
I do remember when FB went down for a hour, a few years back. After that debauckle, we have had a mass data breach ever since.
FAA SHOULD BUY SOME NEW COMPUTERS
If we only had a 100 billion dollars we could…. oh wait we gave it away to Ukraine
That’s a lot of angry people
Greatly shocking 😒 😕
Same day Microsoft EOL-ed Windows 7 …….
Reminder: Republicans want to cut all funding for any and all upgrades and updates to our infrastructure. Watch while they seek to cut additional funding for systems that keep US safe. All while screaming about Democrats.
Remember the controller who pulled the plug on the runways in the movie Airplane. Laughed and said just kidding. 😂
Biden only got the Infrastructure Bill passed last February against massive Republican opposition. In the Bill is money set aside to upgrade the FAA computer systems that handle domestic flights.
It can take years to take bids, award contracts, and upgrade these outdated systems.
This is what a collapsing civilization looks like.
Next up will be Peepa Biden to the mic saying he will spend billions to fix this all. You’d think the US would upgrade many of its outdated systems one day soon but doubtful
You wanted to poke a bear. 🤷🏽♀️ #BidensAmerica
We’re we hacked?🥺🥺😳
*HACKED* LOL don’t you love tech? It’s great…..
when it works.
Don’t fly anymore. Stay home.
Aliens 👽
They got hacked that all
Thunberg loves it
U got this, the power ball approaching a record again only months after setting the previous record n goin over a billion again, and a above average winter, scary stuff goin on
Omg the amount of dumb conspiracy theory nuts…”it must be something more than an outage because no one is reporting on it” …….or maybe it’s just an outage and not that big of a deal.
Not everything is a conspiracy and alluding to that is dangerous. Things happen that’s just how it goes.
I know you’d it to be a conspiracy so it validates your mind set and that something else must be going on,but that’s not the way it is.
How do some of you function in society literally going around thinking everything is a conspiracy?
Get your tin foil hats and go live under a rock. Goodness. Your crazy conspiracy speculation crap is not wanted or needed and it helps nothing.
Who are airline executives, systems administrators developers… Pilots, staff, ground crew… WHO ARE THEY? Librul Biden voters on their way back from a Gretta rally? Who are these people? these fraudster SOP smug pugs? Tweedledee and Tweedledum Gumbies?
Sounds like they got hacked…
We have bailed out these airlines TWICE in the past 15 years. Why did none of that money go to update these clearly old systems?
Could this be caused by hacking?
Poo-teen’s handiwork?
Would we be told if it was a security issue?
More evidence that we don’t need to upgrade our infrastructure and we should just give rich people tax breaks and dump money into pentagon.
Russian hackers?
elect democrats, expect incompetence
Cope
Solar flares
The Whitehouse just can’ tget on message. A poor spokesperson for breifings and several weak cabinet members… just keeps getting worse.
Direct result of poor managerial skills for decades. In addition to severe mismanagement in spending by a government lacking budgeting practices that better the current and future generations.
Ya know, instead of lining their own pockets so they can buy that third vacation property and the newest private jet.
It’s because the government is moving the ufos
Pothole Pete Buttigeig’s incompetence. Not the first time. I wonder if he’s going to penalize and demand refunds from ALL the airlines like he did when he crucified Southwest Airlines during Christmas…for the same problem. Except this time all he says is that it wasn’t a hack. What a fraud we have for a Transportation Secretary…he can only blame his lack of guidence for this disaster, but not his private jet pilots.
So the only planes flying wealthy plane owners ( ummm interested )
Klaus Schwab wrote about this in his convid great reset book
This was a Russian cyberattack, plain and simple, no pun intended.
Running out of petrol
This is first world
philippine has the same issue last January 1.
My guess is they are resetting the system with upgraded software for more control. Just a guess though. All airlines will now be controlled centrally by the FAA instead of air traffic controllers. If the FAA says too many flights are going to that destination then they will cancel until further notice flights to that destination.
I mean do you trust your government?
Their do something. Keep your guards up!
This happened to the Philippines last week. Absolutely fishy!
Never fear Pete is in charge 😂