FAA Grounds Flights Across U.S. in Rare Nationwide Order

Southwest 2179, just a heads up, we went into a national... I'm not sure how long this national ground stop is going to be, but I'm going to put you in line. Are you able to taxi? Taxi vehicle. Attention all aircraft, Something just printed out saying just got the... We're ground stopping everybody out of here. No more departures until further notice. That's a joke, right? Negative. They said it was due to, um, here, I can read it for you. It says, ground stop all departures to all destinations due to equipment. No update time. Stand by for more information from, uh, ZLA TMU. Microsoft took you guys down too, huh? Outlook's getting everybody. And yeah, we don't, we don't know what the equipment outage is for now. It's probably, I don't know, NAS wide, but I don't know what it is.