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Biden, Buttigieg Flummoxed by First FAA Ground Stop Since 9/11
Breitbart ^ | 01/11/2023 | Joel B Pollack

Posted on 01/11/2023 6:58:32 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

President Joe Biden and Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg struggled Wednesday with the first Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ground stop of all flights nationwide since the terror attacks of Sep. 11, 2001.

As Breitbart News reported Wednesday morning: “Commercial airline flights in the U.S. were grounded Wednesday morning due to a mass system failure. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it experienced a computer outage and was working to fix the problem.”

As Fox Business noted: “For the first time since the September 11th attacks, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has grounded all domestic flights Wednesday morning after suffering a nationwide technical outage.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biden; bidensfault; buttigieg; buttigiegsfault; faa; fullmoxed; wherespete; whoops
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To: V_TWIN

Yeah, spooky. We could make it fine with bikes if we had to do so. We sit in the middle of a lot of farms, and cattle aren’t far away.

I’m keeping my old Frontier just in case. The F150 and wife’s Honda have computers. We don’t have to drive very many miles these days but we like day-road trips with hikes and photo ops.

Eventually everything will be so modern that none of it will work, lol.


61 posted on 01/11/2023 9:06:30 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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To: oldguy1776

” I have been told, not verified mind you, that there are still systems running COBOL in the govt....:)”

Probably. But what is really scary is they are probably the ones that launch the nukes.


62 posted on 01/11/2023 9:09:32 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: oldguy1776

Most government agencies have dozens of different computer systems of all different vintages in a hilarious chaotic patchwork.

This is partially the result of the appropriations system which occasionally gives money for upgrades and then a year or two later takes that money away.

One result is that different computer systems do not talk to each other or there are glitches when they do.

Adding to the fun is affirmative action or “equity” contracts means that the vendor skills are often mediocre. In the early days of affirmative action this was overcome by having a “front” minority owner with old white guy subcontractors doing the actual work. These days the .gov contract enforcement rules makes this more difficult—and the results are chaotic and unpredictable.

Ayn Rand called it—this ship is going down—slowly and gradually at first—and then at some point it will be too obvious to ignore.


63 posted on 01/11/2023 9:15:24 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Just like covid shots being being for our health and safety, the push for EVs is supposed to be about being more “earth friendly”.........both narratives are total bullshit.....both are about nothing less than controlling the masses.

The problem is people don’t believe the government would ever do that to us......by the time they wake up......it’ll be way too late.


64 posted on 01/11/2023 9:21:15 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: V_TWIN

Agreed. Location is becoming more important by the day. Cities are going Mad Max and govt control in urban areas is easy.


65 posted on 01/11/2023 9:29:00 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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To: cgbg

Very true. I was approached to work on an upgrade project. When I met the principals at their office I was told “Oh we have met our hiring quota...as soon as they saw the grey hair and the race”. Nothing really overt but I certainly wouldn’t work for an outfit like that.

Last I heard about said project was they were on their 3rd team of people and the project was nowhere near completion...:) I happen to know some folks who work at the site of the project and they have some great stories about the sh** that goes on. It’s this type thing that effects the end users in a very negative way and they can’t do their jobs. But the mgmt looks good because they saved all this money...NOT.


66 posted on 01/11/2023 9:32:38 AM PST by oldguy1776
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To: SaveFerris

I hate to say it, but I’m afraid you’re right.


67 posted on 01/11/2023 9:36:52 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: moovova

This will get out of control.

It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it. /movie


68 posted on 01/11/2023 9:39:21 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Boogieman

I heard they are blaming this on draconian budget cuts. 😂


69 posted on 01/11/2023 9:39:26 AM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: SaveFerris

Well familiar with that! LOL


70 posted on 01/11/2023 9:47:36 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: moovova

I think we’re living it possibly for real now

On at least a couple of fronts

Spiritually and possibly militarily by proxy so far


71 posted on 01/11/2023 10:03:03 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaxxonWoods

I thank God on a regular basis I live where I do......starting to kinda feel like the Alamo however. 😏


72 posted on 01/11/2023 10:11:50 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Celerity

Happened overnight. Fixed this morning.


73 posted on 01/11/2023 10:16:32 AM PST by John W (W)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

As an IT person these types of system failures fascinate me, so I rummaged around the FAA website a bit.

In reading the PDFs one thing that struck me was the vagueness of where the NOTAM database actually resides. There are references to the “NOTAM System computer” (singular) or “NS computer” (singular) and that’s it.

The database is probably small by modern standards, so it might actually be a single computer, perhaps periodically backed up to a second one. I wonder if the main computer died and the backup didn’t work, possibly because nobody tested the recovery procedure for a long time.


74 posted on 01/11/2023 10:22:59 AM PST by Gideon7
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Given all the other “coincidences” we have seen in recent months .... I have a strong suspicion that something else is going on here. What could that something else, be?
Republican majority in Congress...
Biden found to be in possession of Top Secret documents ...
Friday the 13th coming in two days .... (LOL)
Elon Musk dumping more Twitter revelations every other day ...
USA is going to run out of money again (unless Congress acts) ...
Janet Yellen is going to stay in that Secretary of the Treasury job a while longer ...
Russia is destroying Ukraine. Or the other way around if you trust Saint Zelensky ...
Airspace shutdown is a very big deal. Maybe Southwest Airlines is not so evil and incompetent as previously reported?


75 posted on 01/11/2023 10:24:10 AM PST by Honest Nigerian
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