Pearson asks passengers heading to U.S. to check flight status after FAA computer outage grounds planes
A computer outage at the Federal Aviation Administration in the U.S. has prompted Toronto Pearson airport to ask passengers travelling to America this morning to check the status of their flight before heading to the airport.that after a computer outage overnight, the authority was working to restore its “Notice to Air Missions” communications system. The FAA paused all flights departing from the U.S. until 9 a.m. and lifted the order shortly after.
The communications system affected alerts pilots to closed runways, equipment outages and other potential hazards that might affect a flight. The FAA had said flights in the air could still safely land. By 8 a.m., more than 2,500 flights were delayed within, into or out of the U.S., according to the flight tracking website FlightAware. That’s more than the number of all delayed flights on the previous day. More than 150 have been cancelled.By about 9 a.m., FlightAware said 82 flights into or out of the U.S. at Toronto Pearson were delayed and six have been cancelled.
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