Sean Duffy To The White Courtesy Telephone, Puh-leeze

FOX: The FAA has issued a national ground stop over extraordinary circumstances and reasons of safety. According to our records this is only the second time that a nationwide ground stop for all aircraft has been issued since 9/11. https://t.co/O2kvILcct0

— Acyn (@Acyn) November 13, 2026

CNN: CNN has just learned that the FAA has issued a nationwide ground stop for all flights because of extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety. Now, according to information our aviation correspondent, it's limited to the communication of en route, the air route traffic. In other words, they can still communicate. But for some reason there is outages and problems with the communications that direct or that tell airplanes which way and the various route networks across the country. What does it mean? Chaos

— Acyn (@Acyn) November 13, 2026

CNN: CNN has just learned that the FAA has issued a nationwide ground stop for all flights because of extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety.

Now, according to information our aviation correspondent, it's limited to the communication of en route, the air route traffic. In other words, they can still communicate. But for some reason there is outages and problems with the communications that direct or that tell airplanes which way and the various route networks across the country.

What does it mean? Chaos

CNN: I'm just getting off the phone with folks at the FAA who are telling me that this is communications issues impacting the air route traffic control centers… https://t.co/X6z7s3dqWS

— Acyn (@Acyn) November 13, 2026

Schiavo: What's interesting to me about the ground stop is the FAA had also announced that it was about to deploy their new tool called SMART, to assist in managing air traffic across the entire national airspace system… I don't know if they're linked, but it's just too much coincidence that they were trying to start that moving today. And now we have problems with the system. And that would be my guess that they are having computer issues by putting the new software in with the old

— Acyn (@Acyn) November 13, 2026

Schiavo: What's interesting to me about the ground stop is the FAA had also announced that it was about to deploy their new tool called SMART, to assist in managing air traffic across the entire national airspace system…

I don't know if they're linked, but it's just too much coincidence that they were trying to start that moving today. And now we have problems with the system.

And that would be my guess that they are having computer issues by putting the new software in with the old

I’m only surprised FAA didn’t wait until the last week of November to install the program.

Meanwhile, in New Orleans:

CNN: It does not appear that there are passengers that are in the water that are being pulled out. So hopefully that is a good sign. https://t.co/RUdkNFPWkM

— Acyn (@Acyn) November 13, 2026

Duffy is on the way to being scapegoat No. 1.

over on Bluesky, news of the FAA ground stop was broken by Flavor Flav https://t.co/qLLfh2GLzg

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 13, 2026 

Because, of course.

Trump told somebody, anybody, to get Hueng’s name out of the headlines. “Who will rid me of this troublesome CEO?”