The Federal Aviation Administration of USA The FAA is working to restore its notification system following a failure that affected scheduled flights throughout US airspace.
As reported by the FAA on its Twitter account, the Federal Administration proceeded to carry out validation checks and restart the system to restore normality after the failure that affected the entire US National Airspace System.
Update 4: The FAA is making progress in restoring its Notice to Air Missions system following an overnight outage. Departures are resuming at @EWRairport and @ATLairport due to air traffic congestion in those areas. We expect departures to resume at other airports at 9 am ET.
— The FAA ✈️ (@FAANews) January 11, 2023
According to the FlightAware flight tracker, there were about 2,500 planes delayed as a result of this computer glitch.
After the first operations started to restore normal air traffic, the Aviation Administration specified that it had managed to restore “some functions”, but the operations of the airspace control system continued to be “limited”.
The air mission notification system is a procedure that provides essential information for personnel related to flight operations and warns in real time about an abnormal state in the US aerospace system, they point out. various agencies informative.
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, was informed by the Secretary of Transportation about the interruption of the airspace control system, as reported by the White House on Twitter, while explaining that “there is no evidence of a cyber attack in this moment”.
I have been in touch with FAA this morning about an outage affecting a key system for providing safety information to pilots. FAA is working to resolve this issue swiftly and safely so that air traffic can resume normal operations, and will continue to provide updates.
—Secretary Pete Buttigieg (@SecretaryPete) January 11, 2023
In any case, Biden ordered the Department of Transportation to open a full investigation into the causes of this failure.
The US had suffered a situation of air chaos two weeks ago, although then it was due to the passage of the winter storm Elliot, which caused thousands of flight cancellations.
With information from Efe and Ap.
