'At this time, there is no evidence of a cyberattack. With the antiquated system in place, there was nothing to stop the outages, the official told ABC News. Had the FAA’s new NOTAM system been in place, redundancies would likely have stopped the cascading failures. Eastern Time to allow the agency to validate the integrity of flight and safety information.' 'The FAA has ordered airlines to pause all domestic departures until 9 a.m. 'The FAA is still working to fully restore the Notice to Air Missions system following an outage,' said the FAA announcing the temporary grounding of all planes nationwide. The affected Notice To all Air Missions, or NOTAM, system is responsible for sending out flight hazards and real time restrictions to pilots, administration officials said earlier. 'We continue to look into the cause of the initial problem' 'The ground stop has been lifted,' officials said at about 8:50 a.m.

on Wednesday morning following a computer failure that has delayed and canceled flights around the country. “It was an honest mistake that cost the country millions,” the official said.Įarlier Wednesday, the FAA said normal operations were 'resuming gradually' after ordering a nationwide pause on all domestic departures until 9 a.m. The engineer who made the error did not realize what had happened. As the systems began showing problems and ultimately failed, FAA staff feverishly tried to figure out what had gone wrong. appear to have been the result of a mistake that occurred during routine scheduled systems maintenance, according to a senior official briefed on the internal review.Īn engineer “replaced one file with another,” the official said, not realizing the mistake was being made. The ground stop and Federal Aviation Administration systems failures Wednesday morning that impacted thousands of flights across the U.S.

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