FAA's first nationwide ground stop since 2023 lands days after AI traffic tool went national
Justgototheeffinmoon · reddit · 2026-11-14
The FAA halted departures at every US airport Friday — the first full nationwide ground stop since January 2023, affecting 11,000 departures per Cirium. Days earlier it had expanded SMART, an AI air traffic tool built by Air Space Intelligence (reported cost: just under $1 billion), nationwide. Officials blame a telecom/router outage; DHS says it's "looking at" SMART, whose maker denies involvement. The author argues evidence points to network failure, but questions the one-step nationwide AI rollout without published integration/rollback testing.
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