The Federal Aviation Administration directed U.S. carriers to temporarily halt all domestic flight departures on Wednesday morning, as the agency works to fix a technical outage that caused travel disruptions across the country.
The Federal Aviation Administration directed U.S. carriers to temporarily halt all domestic flight departures until 9 a.m. Eastern Wednesday morning, as the agency works to fix a technical outage that caused travel disruptions across the country. The FAA said earlier that its Notice to Air Missions system, or NOTAMs — which issues essential notices to flight personnel — had “failed,” affecting operations “across the National Airspace System.
within, into or out of the United States. It’s not clear how many of those delays are directly attributable to the outage, though passengers on social media reported flight delays and outages across the United States, from Hawaii to Washington.The White House said “there is no evidence” that a cyberattack caused the technical outage. President Biden was briefed on the failures of the FAA’s Notice to Air Missions system and directed the Department of Transportation to investigate its causes.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg tweeted that the FAA “is working to resolve this issue swiftly and safely so that air traffic can resume normal operations, and will continue to provide updates.” The FAA said the outage began at 8:28 p.m. Universal Time on Tuesday night. It was not immediately clear what caused the glitch. After the system failed, “no new NOTAMs or amendments have been processed,” the FAA said.
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