New York: According to the flight-tracking website FlightAware, approximately 10,103 flights within, into, or out of the United States have been delayed and 1,343 have been canceled as of 9:20 p.m. ET Wednesday (Jan 11)
The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday evening that, “Normal air traffic operations are resuming gradually across the US, the ground stop has been lifted following an overnight outage to the Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system that provides safety info to flight crews”.
“The FAA is continuing a thorough review to determine the root cause of the Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system outage. Our preliminary work has traced the outage to a damaged database file. At this time, there is no evidence of a cyber attack. The FAA is working diligently to further pinpoint the causes of this issue and take all needed steps to prevent this kind of disruption from happening again”.
