Nationwide Grounding of US Flights

Did Americans witness Air Traffic Control’s version of the 1983 movie War Games?

In that movie, human beings are taken out of the nuclear weapons silos and replaced with a computer AI-DRIVEN system called WOPR (War Operation Plan Response) that goes absolutely crazy and decides to schedule the unprovoked launching of nuclear warheads onto foreign territories.

According to US government officials at a national press conference last evening, the US Air Traffic Control System’s mass failure, which forced a nationwide grounding of all aircraft for over four hours, was due to outdated computer equipment and an overall antiquated air traffic control system that just happened to fail on an unprecedented scale on Friday the 13th.

According to the Trump administration, the outage had nothing to do with a cyber attack or other nefarious activities, nor was it caused by a glitch in the FAA’s newly expanded artificial intelligence powered planning system named SMART that had gone online only three days earlier.

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Interesting Side Note: The FAA’s SMART system was developed in part by Palantir, which has extensive, long-standing business, military, and leadership ties to Israel.