The FAA just hit the giant red 'pause' button on every plane in the US
Everything is currently grounded, and the sky over the country is looking suspiciously empty.
It is not every day that the FAA decides to turn the entire American aviation system off and back on again. As of this afternoon, every single plane on the tarmac is staying there, and the ones in the air are basically the last ones allowed to exist for the time being. The entire country’s flight network is officially frozen.
Millions of people are currently stuck in airports, probably starting to wonder if the vending machine pretzels are enough to sustain them for the night. There is something deeply unsettling about looking at a flight radar map and seeing absolutely nothing moving.
It takes a special kind of technical disaster to successfully ground the most powerful fleet in the world all at once.
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