All US flights grounded 13 Nov 2026

[scaredeycat]

https://www.axios.com/2026/11/13/faa-nationwide-ground-stop

Air traffic in the USA has suddenly been grounded. The cause is unclear, possibly related to the Microsoft outage.
Could this be sabotage?
Are we living in a new cold cyber war?

Or maybe it’s Biden’s fault?

 

[LionKing]

Hopefully nothing major.

 

[flyingfan]

Reportedly “a communication issue impacting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers.”

 

[PineappleSkip]

A couple of minutes ago from BBC

No indication of an attack - homeland security secretary​

US Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is speaking to reporters at the White House now.

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.

 

[pauldab]

Optus got the contract for the FAA comms networks /s

 

[Brissy1]

No departures, in-flights may continue.
Reported due ATC comms issue

 

[Scarlett]

Breaking: US aviation administration orders grounding of all flights

The US Federal Aviation Administration has issued a national ground stop "due to extraordinary circumstance and reasons for safety".

www.abc.net.au

Comms issues affecting all enroute control centres.

 

[kelvedon]

US Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin Quoted as saying “ this isn’t another 9/11”
BBC is quoting him as saying a “telecommunications outage" has led to the ground stoppage.
Cyber attack ?

 

[jrfsp]

Have you tried turning it off and on

 

[kamchatsky]

Optus got the contract for the FAA comms networks /s

Nah, they communicated via email

 

[SYD]

It’s going to make the recent UK ATC meltdown look like a small blip (it wasn’t!)…

 

[elanshin]

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Hopefully nothing major.

This is relatively major, only 2nd time this has been issued since 9/11. The longer they're offline (every extra minute) the bigger the snowball gets.

Sounds like many (most?) atc centres have almost 0 communication capabilities to planes.

 

[pauldab]

Misery map (press the play button) to view the carnage

FlightAware MiseryMap®

The FlightAware MiseryMap® is a visualization of the state of US flight delays and cancellations

www.flightaware.com

 

[tassie6]

Another form of misery map, all the arrivals that now dont have a gate (LAX):



This United flight has been sitting there for 2 hours....