On the autumn of January 10, 2021, at around 230 PM PST, the FAA issued a ground stop order to all aeroplanes, at least in the western United States. The temporary pause on all movements to and from airfields included fliers being ordered to land and lasted roughly between seven and 20 twinkles before it was lifted and services returned to normal.
There has so far been no explanation given for this action. In this vacuum of information, some are connecting the largely peculiar event to another ballistic bullet test launch out of North Korea, the alternate in lower than a week, that traveled 435 country miles from its launch point, impacting fairly far out into the ocean of Japan.
One airman flying into Yuma told The War Zone they were advised to what regulators called a" public ground stop"and ordered to land before it was lifted. On a Reddit/ ATC thread, regulators were agitating the puzzling ground stop, which appears to have been contained to just the western United States. Some reflected that they hadn't seen anything like it since9/11.
There was also an image that apparently shows the flight slips with the ground stop orders on them that our friend@OSINTTechnical has reposted, as you can see below. We can not confirm their authenticity at this time.
As it sits now, we can not confirm that the North Korean launch did indeed goad this nearly unknown move by the FAA, but the timing is largely questionable. Original reports indicate that the bullet was launched at 227 PM PST (727 AM Korea Standard Time), nearly contemporaneous with the ground top order.
Strategic Command executes exigency protocols whenever a potentially hostile ballistic bullet launch is detected and only has moments to make opinions as to who to warn and how to respond. You can read all about this in our former composition linked then.
Still, indeed if briefly, there may be new protocols in place since the mischief Kim governance achieved ICBM capability to warn the FAA and issue a halt on operations, If the North Korean bullet test was miscategorized as a possible trouble.
It's also worth noting that this was likely another test of either a hypersonic boost- glide vehicle or a maneuveringre-entry vehicle (MaRV), the ultimate of which would also travel at hypersonic pets. Yonhap News states this test gunshot reached Mach 10, double the haste of the hypersonic threshold.
Both hypersonic munitions generalities are erected to shirk bullet defenses, but North Korea has not tested or displayed anything but short- range hypersonic vehicle capabilities, not bones that would indeed come near to hanging theU.S. motherland.
Tracking and gradingnon-traditional hypersonic pitfalls is a major chain the Department of Defense is working to overcome, and at great cost. The habitual nebulosity girding North Korea's bullet capabilities and testing enterprise does not help the situation, moreover.
So, could the launch have started preventives that were latterly rescinded formerly further about the bullet's path and other flight characteristics come known? Or was this some kind of blatant mistake?
While robotization is clearly a part of such a fast-moving, quick response strategic process, this could have been simple mortal error prodded by the bullet test. On the other hand, it could have absolutely nothing to do with it at all and was just a coexistence. It's not like we have not seen analogous screw-ups ahead.
What is so strange is that for such a high- profile and peculiar event, there has been absolutely no messaging from the FAA about it.
Source The war Zone
