The FAA said it is “performing final validation checks and reloading the system” amid a nationwide outage. Here’s what we know.
The Federal Aviation Administration reported a nationwide outage impacting NOTAM, appearing to impact several flights across the United States, on Jan. 11, 2023.on Wednesday reported a system failure nationwide, appearing to impact several flights across the United States.
About 1,162 flights within, into, and out of the U.S. were delayed as of about 7 a.m. ET on Wednesday, according toA statement from the FAA noted an issue with NOTAM , a system that sends out critical information to pilots and other flight operations personnel about potential hazards along a route. NOTAM used to be available through a hotline, but that was phased out with the internet, according to the Associated Press.
The alerts span from mundane information about construction at airports to urgent flight restrictions or broken equipment.. "Operations across the National Airspace System are affected."There is a potential for widespread disruption because of the outage. All aircraft are required to route through the system, including commercial and military flights.just before 7 a.m.
In its own statement, United Airlines told FOX Television Stations that it has "temporarily delayed all domestic flights and will issue an update when we learn more from the FAA."many passengers on Twitter also began reporting"Anyone else stranded? Our @united says there is a nation wide outage of FAA @FAANews computer systems," one Twitter user wrote.
"@AmericanAir informed us that all flights flying to the USA are grounded until the FAA system is fixed," another questioned. "@FAANews, any updates? Currently in Paris, Thanks."
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