FAA ground stop 'interrupting the whole of North American airspace'

Last time I saw something like this was 9/11, where we had a total shutdown of airspace and we had to get planes on the ground worldwide quickly. This is not that. You know, that much of an issue at this point in time, I think we need to have those airplanes on the ground. Nothing leaves and nothing gets back in the air until such time as these communication systems work. If there's no communication between the air traffic controllers and the airports and the airlines, we've got accidents that could possibly happen. And tell me more about the communication systems. You talked about communications between air traffic controllers and planes, but what do these communications systems do, essentially? Well, the pilots basically are waiting for instructions from air traffic control. So if you're looking at a flight that's operating at 31,000 feet and they're wanting to change direction or they want to change altitude, they need radio communication with the air traffic controllers to give them the authority to change the direction on the flight or change altitude or give them instructions about what direction you should be heading to get into an airport. So that communication system seems to be down. I'm not sure. exactly how that works. But the information we have is the FAA basically had a communication breakdown that started in Chicago and then moved across the country. Um, and, uh, when that happens, your job as a controller and your job as a pilot is you now move to visual flight rules, uh, instead of instrument flight rules, and you have to basically make sure you're following instructions given to you. However, they get there by, by electronic means, by messaging, uh, or other means to basically get you on the ground safely as quickly as possible. So there's a lot of implications for domestic services as well as anything flying to and from the U S. That's an important message for folks to be checking their flight statuses, even if they are domestic flights this evening. That's correct. Yeah. So this is interrupting the whole of North American aerospace.