CNN Aviation Analyst Says ‘It’s Just Too Much of a Coincidence’ FAA Rolled out New AI Traffic Tool Right Before Nationwide Ground Stop

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SCHIAVO: “And I have to say, it’s a tremendous amount of coincidence that right now, I mean, that they announced that they were going to start doing this, particularly since one of the goals of the SMART system — it’s not that we don’t need this — we need this. But one of the goals of the SMART system was to manage the en route traffic that Pete was just talking about. And so, if they’re putting in new software now, this new SMART system, to start managing that. And now we have a communications outage. We’ve seen this so many times in the past. I don’t know if they’re linked, but it’s just too much coincidence that they’re trying to start that moving today, and now we have problems with the en route system."

(Via Mediaite)