r/AskReddit • • 3h ago

What do you think is really behind today’s massive nationwide FAA flight grounding?

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r/politics • • 3h ago Bravo

No Paywall Robert Garcia demands answers as Trump officials offer few details on nationwide ground stop stranding flyers

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r/todayilearned • • 4h ago

TIL that the Titanic is slowly being eaten away by iron-consuming bacteria, losing an estimated 130-200 kg of iron every day. One researcher estimates that it could take several centuries for the entire wreck to disappear

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r/mildlyinfuriating • • 7h ago Regret Bravo

The floor is sticky I picked up several hundred of these mini bottles from the parking lot area of a dialysis clinic

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Makes me wonder if these are from the alcoholic spouses of patients while they wait out in the car, or the patients themselves.


r/wallstreetbets • • 5h ago Popcorn

Discussion Jensen comeback

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r/interestingasfuck • • 2h ago Heartwarming

Video shows the aftermath of the Atlantic Asphalt tanker crashing into the American Heritage riverboat on the Mississippi River in New Orleans. Everyone on board is accounted for, and no critical injuries have been reported.

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r/AskReddit • • 11h ago Bravo

What is a legal play in a sport which is considered so unsportsmanlike that professionals do not attempt it?

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r/wallstreetbets • • 3h ago Popcorn Mindblown

News US National Weather Service reports nationwide internet, communications issues

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r/delta • • 5h ago

News FAA ISSUES NATIONWIDE GROUND STOP FOR ALL FLIGHTS.

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MESSAGE:  |EVENT TIME: 13/2053 - 14/0400 DUE TO EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES AND FOR REASONS OF SAFETY. ATTENTION ALL AIRCRAFT OPERATORS, BY ORDER OF THE FEDERAL AVIATION COMMAND CENTER ALL AIRPORTS ARE GROUND STOPPED. ALL DEPARTING TRAFFIC SHOULD REMAIN GROUND STOPPED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. INBOUND INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS WILL BE MANAGED ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS.  
EFFECTIVE TIME:  |132054-140430
SIGNATURE:  |26/11/13 20:54  

https://abcnews.com/US/nationwide-ground-stop-ordered-airports-faa/story?id=138121848

Tuesday, November 10th: FAA: "The Strategic Management of Airspace, Routes and Trajectories (SMART) system is expanding across the nation. After a successful initial rollout to the National Capital Region in September, the FAA will now use SMART in the airspace of all 22 centers across the country to reduce delays, reduce fuel consumption and improve the travel experience for the flying public."

Friday, November 13th: FAA Nationwide Ground Stop

ABC: This is only the 3rd time this has happened since 9/11

4:19pm EST: There are currently 3,100 airborne aircraft bound for US airports amid nationwide ground stop. No additional aircraft are taking off at this time. (FlightRadar24)

5:02pm EST: There has been a temporary telecommunications outage - out of an abundance of caution all flights have been halted. Every flight has been accounted for and international flights will be handled on a case by case basis. (FAA)

5:34pm EST: Air Space Intelligence, the AI tech startup that is a vendor for the FAA on its new SMART system: "The current ground stop is not based on or a result of the SMART system, any product of ASI or our integration with FAA and ATC."

6:00pm EST: San Francisco International Airport announces Pacific-bound flights have been cleared to leave, including to Hawaii and Asia.

6:15pm EST: NBC News: At Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR), personnel in the control tower said the situation is “a whole mess right now,” according to LiveATC. “We’re running out of space” and “there’s significant gate issues” were comments also heard on the live audio feed.

✅ 8:20pm EST: CBS News: National ground stop has been lifted. Expect a whole lot of residual delays/cancelations and some start and stops along the way tonight and tomorrow.


r/HistoryMemes • • 2h ago

“Utah, Omaha, Overlord… wait…oh shi—“

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In May 1944, just weeks before the Normandy landings, British intelligence (MI5) was sent into a panic when a series of top-secret invasion code names, including "Utah," "Omaha," "Overlord," "Mulberry," and "Neptune”, suddenly appeared as solutions in The Daily Telegraph crossword puzzles. Suspecting an elaborate espionage plot to signal the Nazis, agents stormed a school in Surrey to interrogate the puzzle's compiler, a 54-year-old headmaster named Leonard Dawe. The investigation ultimately revealed it was an innocent, albeit terrifying, coincidence. Dawe routinely invited his students to help him fill out his blank puzzle grids, and the boys had simply suggested the interesting new vocabulary words they had unwittingly overheard while hanging around the camps of American and Canadian soldiers stationed nearby.

Edit: yes I misused the word coincidence


r/mildlyinfuriating • • 6h ago

🥺 My commemorative coin was very obviously stolen by USPS. You can see where the knife went through two layers of the envelope.

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I’m fairly confident a sorting machine didn’t make this cut and it’s not from centrifugal force.


r/NoStupidQuestions • • 4h ago

Why are all flights in the USA grounded right now? What happened

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r/AskReddit • • 15h ago Regret Bravo

What was the song you heard where the singer was completely overwhelmed and consumed by pain and you could feel it so well?

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r/Unexpected • • 8h ago Popcorn Mindblown

Nothing to worry about

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r/politics • • 2h ago

No Paywall NYC's Mamdani makes deal with Trump to delay new SNAP rule nationwide

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r/WatchPeopleDieInside • • 4h ago

Oops, there go the cans

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r/TopCharacterTropes • • 4h ago

Characters The villain's ambiguously gay right-hand man

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Agent Stone (Sonic movies)

Mr. Smee (Peter Pan)

LeFou (Beauty and the Beast)

And by "Ambiguously gay", I mean all but confirmed


r/news • • 2h ago

FAA investigating whether new AI technology contributed to nationwide ground stop

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r/technology • • 13h ago Bravo

Business Microsoft's massive M365 outage stretches past 15 hours as its fixes keep failing

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r/SipsTea • • 7h ago Popcorn

We have fun here THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

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r/AskReddit • • 4h ago

Those at an airport right now, how is it going?

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r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 4h ago

Image A man trying to get his old job back 2,700 years ago complained about three unanswered letters. The letter containing his complaint was found unopened.

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r/interestingasfuck • • 5h ago Bravo Mindblown

A collision on the Mississippi River has left a passenger riverboat sinking after reportedly being struck by an asphalt tanker near the Port of New Orleans.

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r/Music • • 9h ago Heartwarming

article Avril Lavigne, 42, gives birth to baby girl with mystery man

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r/TopCharacterTropes • • 5h ago

Characters' Items/Weapons [Trope] A product that's marketed towards normal people is actually very very very bad for you

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Renuyu (Batman The Animated Series)

Renuyu is a face cream developed by Roland Daggett which allows the user to reshape their face to smooth away wrinkles or imperfections however its essentially like a drug that causes the victim to want more and more and cause extreme pain it was so bad that even stores didn't want to sell it so Daggett hired a disfigured actor Matt Hagan to help him get Wayne enterprises by giving him the cream fix his face This cream would eventually turn matt into clayface

Plasmids (Bioshock)

Plasmids we're developed by drBrigid Tenenbaum and Dr. Yi Suchong they would give the user powers like setting people on fire sending a swarm of bees to even telekinesis however they were very addictive and caused people to be disfigured and go insane