是什么导致了全国性的航班混乱？微软公司以及联邦航空管理局（FAA）新的人工智能驱动的SMART系统背后的公司都表示：不是我们的问题。
What caused the nationwide plane chaos? Microsoft and the company behind the FAA's new AI-powered SMART system have something to say: It wasn't us.
周五下午，由于通信问题，联邦航空管理局下令全国所有飞机停飞，导致数千个航班延误。周五晚间，国土安全部部长马克韦恩·马林在白宫外的新闻发布会上表示，当局没有排除导致此次故障的任何可能原因。网上有人推测，问题可能与SMART系统有关，这是Air Space Intelligence公司的一个工具，利用人工智能监控空中交通并防止延误。
On Friday afternoon, thousands of flights were delayed after the Federal Aviation Administration ordered all planes grounded nationwide because of communications issues. In a press conference outside the White House on Friday evening, Department of Homeland Security secretary Markwayne Mullin said authorities weren't ruling out any possible cause of the outage. Some online speculated that the problem was related to the SMART system, a tool from Air Space Intelligence that uses AI to monitor air traffic and prevent delays.
据《政治报》（POLITICO）9月报道，由于联邦航空管理局的描述含糊不清，航空业资深人士最初对这一新系统感到不安。SMART系统本周开始推广到更广泛的使用。但周五，ASI在X平台发帖称，他们的系统与这起大规模的联邦航空管理局故障无关。“目前的停飞令并非基于SMART系统，也不是ASI任何产品或我们与联邦航空管理局和空管部门整合的结果，”该公司表示。
In September, POLITICO reported that airline industry veterans were initially nervous about the new system because of the FAA's vague description. The SMART system began rolling out to wider use this week. But on Friday, ASI wrote in an X post that their system wasn't connected to the massive FAA outage. "The current ground stop is not based on or a result of the SMART system, any product of ASI or our integration with FAA and ATC.," the company said.
微软本周也遇到了自己的问题，一次全球性故障导致电子邮件等服务中断数小时，扰乱了大型公司的工作周，并引发了办公室职员的调侃表情包。网上有人猜测微软是否有关联。微软迅速否认了这些猜测。“我们没有迹象表明联邦航空管理局的全国性停飞令与任何微软服务有关，”该公司在X平台写道。
Microsoft had its own problems this week, as a worldwide outage knocked out services like email for hours, snarling the workweek at major companies and inspiring memes from office workers. Some wondered online if Microsoft was connected. It quickly shot those suspicions down. "We have no indication that the FAA's nationwide ground stop is related to any Microsoft services," the company wrote on X. The FAA outage is nearly unprecedented, with only one other nationwide ground stop since federal aviation officials famously froze US airspace during the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
据FlightAware.com网站数据，截至美国东部时间周五晚6点40分，进出美国或在美国境内的航班已有3220多个被取消，约10200个延误。这次联邦航空管理局的故障几乎是前所未有的，自联邦航空官员在“9·11”恐怖袭击期间著名地冻结美国领空以来，仅发生过另一次全国性停飞。
As of 6:40 p.m. ET on Friday night, over 3,220 flights into, within, or out of the US have been canceled, and roughly 10,200 were delayed, according to FlightAware.com.
来自全国各机场的照片显示，乘客被带下飞机时人群聚集，停机坪上飞机排成了长队。
Photos from airports across the country showed crowds forming as passengers were taken off flights and planes lining up on the tarmac.