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Trust me bro the FAA ground stop is just the Microsoft outage spreading to air traffic control
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Yesterday it was Outlook, Teams, and Copilot. Today it's a nationwide ground stop. The timeline is too clean for a lot of people, and they're treating it like the same outage jumped into air traffic control. BBC live coverage: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c6z9dwn12037t
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Yeah, I saw the same thing: Microsoft down yesterday, every flight stuck today. It looks connected until you actually read the official comments.
DHS already said this isn't tied to the Microsoft outage. I'd rather wait for the FAA's technical explanation than glue the two headlines together.
The reports I've seen start in Chicago's control center and then spread to Boston, New York, Washington. That sounds like a comms problem inside the ATC system, not Outlook being down.
The coincidence is going to live online all night either way. Two ugly outages on back-to-back days is enough to make anyone suspicious, even if they aren't the same failure.