WASHINGTON DC: Hundreds of flights were cancelled and hundreds more have been delayed by an outage in the computer systems of the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States. Several reports mentioned the failure of warning systems led to the delay in the flights.
"The FAA is working to restore its Notice to Air Missions System. We are performing final validation checks and reloading the system now. Operations across the National Airspace System are affected. We will provide frequent updates as we make progress," mentioned the Federal Aviation Administration over their official Twitter handle.
The Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM ) system of the United States Federal Aviation Administration is the unit responsible for alerting pilots and other flight officials about any hazard in the flight route. It is also responsible for alerting pilots and airport facilities about any changes made to flights. Emergency weather warning systems are another duty of the Notice to Air Missions system. But it was unable to process and update information as well carry out the necessary procedures on Wednesday. This was also mentioned on the website of the civil aviation authority of the United States on Wednesday.
In an advisory that went out of the FAA, it was mentioned that the Notice to Air Missions system had failed. It mentioned that there was no immediate estimate of how long it will take to get the system back online.
According to FlightAware, a flight tracking website, about 760 flights were delayed and an additional 91 flights were cancelled at around 6:30 Eastern Time. A large number of flights among these were international flights
Although the exact reasons for the outage are not known yet, several airlines have announced delays for all their flights, both domestic and international ones. And the FAA has announced that experts are working on restoring the system to get the flights back in the air.
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