The software that failed and forced the FAA to ground thousands of flights on Wednesday is 30 years old and is not scheduled to be updated for another six years, a senior government official says.
on Wednesday is 30 years old and not scheduled to be updated for another six years, according to a senior government official.
After the FAA was able to get planes flying again, a government official said a corrupted file that affected both the primary and the backup NOTAM systems appeared to be the culprit. Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va., was busy Wednesday after an FAA outage canceled and delayed flights.Earlier, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg
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