Aviation experts are frustrated with the FAA's investment in woke 'inclusion' efforts, after major system failure caused mass flight cancelations.
Travelers flying to and from Washington National Airport were frustrated and had safety concerns after the Federal Aviation Administration grounded all flights.
A message board shows departures at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, on Wednesday, Jan. 11. 2023. A computer outage at the Federal Aviation Administration brought flights to a standstill across the U.S. on Wednesday, with hundreds of delays quickly cascading through the system at airports nationwide.
"Such an important system needs to work. Technology is great until it stops working. As a pilot, we have backup plans for how we plan our flights. The agency needs to behave similarly by having backup upon backup," Lagonia stressed speaking about the importance of the agency preparing for these types of situations going forward.led to the Wednesday outage of the NOTAM system.
The NOTAM system and the backup system are based on decades-old technology and have not been updated due to budget constraints, CNN reported.
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