I think it's an outlandish claim that a technical glitch happened today that caused such a degree of widespread outage that the FAA had to take a step it hadn't taken since September 11, 2001.

Your belief isn't evidence, and you shouldn't present it as such.

A vague statement from the FAA isn't evidence either, just like a statement from the CDC not to buy masks isn't evidence they don't work to protect against a virus.

And I'm not claiming I have any evidence other than publicly observable patterns relating to both technical glitches and government transparency.

I'm speculating, based on the fact that technical glitches usually occur more than once every 21 years (or even less frequently, since 9/11 grounding was not due to a technical glitch), and that government agencies often lie to the public, that the FAA is not telling the whole truth.

And that is my right to do when commenting pseudonymously on an internet forum. You are similarly free to disagree with me or defer to your blind fealty to a government agency.

"based on the fact that technical glitches usually occur more than once every 21 years (or even less frequently, since 9/11 grounding was not due to a technical glitch), and that government agencies often lie to the public, that the FAA is not telling the whole truth"

Prove these are facts.

The reason I don't respect your opinion is because you don't know the difference between an opinion and facts and i don't like people like you lying on Hacker News.

"and that government agencies often lie to the public"

Technical glitches occur more frequently in what type of systems?

What's often? Why are you grouping all government agencies when evaluating their trust?

> You are similarly free to disagree with me or defer to your blind fealty to a government agency.

That's a pretty absurd set of choices.

That's kind of their point... The FAA is making an outlandish claim, we'd like to see their proof.

How is it an outlandish claim that one of their system's crashed? Is it unusual that a computer system crashes even if it's a rare event?

If a website went down and the company said "the system crashed" you wouldn't believe them without proof? What could the FAA provide you to prove this?

What makes you distrust the FAA?

Either it's extremely unusual (once in 21+ years), or happens more often than that but only this time did they decide to ground all planes in response to the glitch. In the latter case, then they must not be telling the whole truth, because they're omitting whatever is "different" about this time that changed their response to a glitch in this system.