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FAA Grounds All Flights From West Coast Due To Computer "Glitch"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/30/2014 17:40 -0400

Update: ye olde CTRL+ALT+DEL trick seems to have done it and the computer "glitch" has been fixed.

FINAL UPDATE: FAA seems to have fixed the computer issues at the affected airports. Ground stops are being lifted.

— N. Jerzy Fire Alert (@NJerzyFireAlert) April 30, 2014

Now if only it was this easy to fix the busted economy and the rigged market.

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The FAA has declared a "ground halt" on all flights at the following airports: BOS, BWI, DCA, EWR, FLL, JFK, LAS, LAX, LGA, MCO, MIA, PHL, TEB

*COMPUTER PROVIDING AIR-TRAFFIC RADAR DISPLAY MALFUNCTIONING

LAX is citing "computer issues" as the reason (and a radar system crash across at least 3 Western states) which could mean delays up to 90 minutes.

@fotograaf FAA issued a ground stop at LAX due to computer issues. Contact them for details.

— LAX Airport (@flyLAXairport) April 30, 2014

According to the FAA site, the following airports are also on ground halt...

BOS - General Edward Lawrence Logan International
BWI - Baltimore-Washington International
DCA - Ronald Reagan Washington National
EWR - Newark International
FLL - Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International
JFK - John F Kennedy International
LAS - Las Vegas McCarran International
LAX - Los Angeles International
LGA - La Guardia
MCO - Orlando International
MIA - Miami International
PHL - Philadelphia International
TEB - Teterboro

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Wed, 04/30/2014 - 17:43 | 4713874 Stackers

The entire IFR flight plan filing system is computerized. A network issue with it would cause lots of headaches

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 17:48 | 4713899 12ToothAssassin

FBI's 6 week cycle.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 17:51 | 4713909 The Gooch

<---John Bolton

<---Michael Bolton

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:10 | 4713958 Looney

Is that a Russian “thank you” for our paying the Ukrainian gas bill? ;-)

Looney

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:25 | 4714005 eatthebanksters

Was Sebellius put in charge of Air Traffic Control?

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:27 | 4714013 onewayticket2

the East Coast airports are due to weather....LAX is flying, i'm told.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:41 | 4714062 NotApplicable

Stuxnet made it back home?

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:44 | 4714074 giggler321

More like MH370 showing up everywhere so they turned the screens off

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:58 | 4714120 Freddie

Stuxnet was feeling lonely and missed home.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 19:52 | 4714241 UnpatrioticHoarder

This is the centralized air traffic system which displayed false radar blips on 9/11 as part of a "training exercise"

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 20:02 | 4714271 mjcOH1

(A)bort! (R)etry! (F)ail!

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 20:18 | 4714315 Oxbo Rene

Testing, testing, testing ........

Thu, 05/01/2014 - 02:25 | 4715077 glefnet

precisely. abeldanger anyone?

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:41 | 4714063 Save_America1st

when in doubt, reboot tthat bitch...fixes the issue at least 90% of the time.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:49 | 4714094 NotApplicable

Then three more times and maybe, just maybe the windows updates will have finished.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 20:09 | 4714289 A Nanny Moose

Fake a virus attack!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0mwT3DkG4w

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 19:36 | 4714196 drendebe10

Sebellius: "There ain't nuitin uglier than an old white woman." Friend Sanford, Sanford and Son.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:50 | 4714095 Freddie

Putin said he can see Los Angeles, Mexi-Porn-ia from his front porch.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:26 | 4714006 AreaMan

Dick Cheney could not be reached for comment.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:47 | 4714087 Freddie

F the West Coast.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 19:38 | 4714208 drendebe10

aka, the Left Coast.... God help them when the big one hits... Nevada will become beachfront property.....

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:49 | 4714090 Larry Dallas

Blame Donald Sterling!!!

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 22:24 | 4714698 Stuck on Zero

Was the FAA software developed by the same people who did the Obamacare website?

Thu, 05/01/2014 - 02:02 | 4715061 Wile-E-Coyote

Ahhh..... did Fukushima blow up again?

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 17:43 | 4713876 Ban KKiller

Cyber attack?

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 17:51 | 4713908 Apeman

Russian countersanctions? I guess not, but would be sweet.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 17:53 | 4713915 john39

more likely blamed on al-cia-duh, Iran or Syria...

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:05 | 4713945 Xibalba

Radar down? Guess we should expect to see some fireworks.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:06 | 4713948 McMolotov

"What's our vector, Victor?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVq4_HhBK8Y

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:08 | 4713950 john39

similar issues today in the UK?

http://news.sky.com/story/1252631/fights-as-it-glitch-sparks-long-airpor...

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:11 | 4713964 Xibalba

I'm sure it's all just a coinicidence. Keep calm and move along.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:21 | 4713990 john39

it apparently takes all the computing juice the world can muster to push the dow to new nominal highs.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 20:47 | 4714410 A Nanny Moose

Aftermath of Goin' Galt

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:14 | 4713972 McMolotov

"Glitchez," bitchez.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 19:54 | 4714247 thelibcentury

Safe bet that this is related to the IE vulnerability...

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:14 | 4713974 HaroldWang

No news here. Someone pulled a plug on the computer so his buddy could buy the only dip in /ES in AH market

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 17:55 | 4713918 McMolotov

Flight 370 has been cleared for takeoff.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:28 | 4714016 NotApplicable

My immediate thought upon reading the headline.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:54 | 4714108 DirkDiggler11

Exactly McMolotov !

Just like the Phoenix rises from the ashes, so does flight 370 ! Or the ghost of flight 370 scaring the hell out of the NSA and FAA anyway. I'm sure Agent Barney Fife over at the department of homeland security has everything under control. Might be time to give Barney one of the 5 Trillion rounds of ammo the DHS has bought over the past three years ...

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 17:44 | 4713879 CrashisOptimistic

Maybe this will help Q2 GDP.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:06 | 4713946 McMolotov

Maybe this is when the aliens will reveal themselves.

[cue dramatic chipmunk]

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:35 | 4714043 Winston Churchill

My dipshit cousin wrote all the software and algos for the system.Got stinking rich from them too.
Time for a family call to ask how everything is going up there
at Harvaaard.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 17:44 | 4713880 jubber

Russian sanctions I would guess...

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 17:44 | 4713883 astoriajoe

Is Putin laughing somewhere?

That's a nice airport you've got. It would be a shame if something bad were to happen to its computer systems.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:54 | 4714110 Freddie

Reference to Monty Python sketch with Luigi Vercotti and his brother Dino.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNj1dXi-z0M

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 21:10 | 4714489 samsara

China had a terrorist bomb blast just before.

Odd things are happening more often it seems.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 17:49 | 4713885 Dorelei

OMG an other centrally planned system not working !

In a truly unplanned system every plane has the freedom to land and take off where he wants !

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:09 | 4713949 hobopants

So what you're telling me is your feeble intellect is incapable of seeing the differences between a traffic control system and the economy?

Here maybe you'll learn something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueZ6tvqhk8U

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:11 | 4713962 Dorelei

I mean it's run by taxpayer money wasted on a lazy air control administration ...

Better to just fire them all ...

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:39 | 4714053 hobopants

Only if you promise to take their place, we need someone with serious troll experience to keep the skies safe.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:48 | 4714081 Dorelei

Oh yes I love to plan things !!

Mother nature also love to plan!

Look at your centrally planned DNA , from the first nanosecond you were created nature has bestowed you with advanced cognitive skills !

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:34 | 4714037 Help Is Not Coming

"In a truly unplanned system every plane has the freedom to land and take off where he wants!"

Yup, welcome to Class G airspace where every plane does have the freedom to land and take off where they want. Not much Class G airspace left out there though.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 17:46 | 4713892 loregnum

Al Queda! Can't wait for the morons to say that shit.

Well actually since Putin is now the mainstream media's boogyeman I am sure he'll be blamed for this.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:02 | 4713938 Flagit

"The screens....they just keep showing a demo of Tetris..."

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 17:48 | 4713895 Rainman

Betcha TSA still on the job pattin down Grandmas.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:05 | 4713943 Jendrzejczyk

The TSA prefers the term "feeling up" grandmas.

^{It's a public relations thing.}

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:29 | 4714018 NotApplicable

That way, they like it!

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:44 | 4714069 Emergency Ward

Digital genital probes, but don't worry -- they always wear those filthy nitrile gloves that they change once every shift....

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 17:48 | 4713896 JustObserving

How soon does Kerry blame Putin for that?

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:09 | 4713953 Thoreau

Pointing a big finger at Putin would be paramount to pointing a gun at the ineptitude/vulnerability of US/TSA/DHS/etc. Putin's laughing alright, but this will be a private joke between himself and Obummer.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 22:41 | 4714737 Sambo

After the 9/11 coverup was exposed, they dont have a finger to point anywhere now.

Cunning = Lack of intelligence.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 17:50 | 4713902 Silver_K-9

"Spasiba" - V. Putin

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 17:50 | 4713903 CaptainSpaulding

Wow!! This news isnt even on the La times yet when i checked. Boy Zero hedge, You're good

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:10 | 4713961 Omegaman2211

Behold the power of Twitter.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:20 | 4713987 Ralph Spoilsport

ZH is outperforming DrudgeReport which has missed most of the breaking news covered here.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 19:58 | 4714256 seek

I've noticed the same, I have them both in rotation and it's pretty routine now for ZH to have stories well before they show on Drudge.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:30 | 4714022 NotApplicable

Boy Zero hedge, You're a low-brow fringe blog.

FTFY!

_{"Well, I've got friends in low places..."}

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 20:25 | 4714336 El Hosel

Mainstream media won't report this... People might get the wrong idea, move along.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 17:50 | 4713905 GooseShtepping Moron

Please don't say "bullish."

I'm serious. If anyone says bullish I'm taking a shot.

On second thought, I think I need one.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:38 | 4714050 logicalman

Bullish

There, that should help you relax a little.

Maybe fire up the bong too!

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 17:52 | 4713910 I am Jobe

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Aldous Huxley

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 17:52 | 4713911 TrustWho

The airports are interesting list. Florida and BWI north plus west LA, Las Vegas. No Chicago or Dallas? Strange national network, no?

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 17:56 | 4713919 Ralph Spoilsport

PHL, and Newark along with BWI means a huge FUBAR for the East Coast also.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:44 | 4714071 NotApplicable

Puters are touchy like that.

As always, my expert reply to any computer problem.

Gremlins.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:57 | 4714117 DirkDiggler11

No ATL either ...

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 17:53 | 4713914 dirtyfiles

bullish

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 17:59 | 4713925 Dewey Cheatum Howe

Interesting that IAD isn't on that list. Unless I am missing something it should be also considering it's proximity to. Those should all be international airports.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 17:59 | 4713931 Dr.Vannostrand

Cue CPL "its only going to get weirder" regarding teh airlines.

HHHMMMMMMMM...................

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:00 | 4713932 RmcAZ

FAA lists the east coast airports on ground stop due to weather.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:10 | 4713960 Ralph Spoilsport

We have been getting a lot of rain but winds are calm.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:00 | 4713933 TrulyStupid

Must be an orphaned can of shaving cream that got by the heroes at TSA/HomelandSec.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 20:39 | 4714378 Sokhmate

Used, shaving cream, from the Gilden Yak shaving day event

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:01 | 4713934 phoolish

Is Cheney in the control center?

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:01 | 4713937 Omegaman2211

Flights from SFO are arriving and flying out normally.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:05 | 4713942 Uber Vandal

It's those fracking Cylons.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:12 | 4713968 Z_End

Multiple DRADIS contacts...

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:08 | 4713951 Last of the Mid...

Someone whispered the word "racist" and they shut the whole damn thing down!

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:08 | 4713952 Ribeye

so, thats trains and planes,

stay of the roads tonight folks,

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:30 | 4714025 Flagit

"Autoooomobeeelll, hahahah" -- Long Duk Dong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXZVogXPAr4

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:10 | 4713955 Laughinggrizzley

Wait till they get ahold of healthcare. Oops, too late!

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:47 | 4714080 TalkToLind

Yep! You ain't seen a "ground hold" yet until you see jumbo sized gum chewing patients waiting 5 - 6 months for routine medical care. It's coming.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:39 | 4714054 Boomberg

We don't need no stinkin' radar anyway. Just government control over our freedoms and them tellin' us whar we can go and when we can go do it. This is Americuh by golly. They need that thar radar to keep them chemtrail planes from hittin' each other. Ya that's the ticket. Its all about the chemtrails man.

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 18:42 | 4714066 lakecity55

*Ring*
"Hello?"
"Look at your FAA Radars, Bath House! Hahahha!"*Click*
"Hmmm, was that Vlad?"

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 19:06 | 4714137 WMM II

"The FAA has declared a "ground halt" on all flights"

so, like if this keeps occurring will we call it "ground halt" days?

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 19:10 | 4714145 f16hoser

...or maybe...Dumb Ass (Obama) is coming back from Asia?

Wed, 04/30/2014 - 19:25 | 4714178 AdvancingTime

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Wed, 04/30/2014 - 19:46 | 4714225 I Write Code