The Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system was completely offline Wednesday morning, grounding commercial flights across the US. Credit: Magdalena Petrova The Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system, a centralized database operated by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that...
However, US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg later told media that by that evening it was clear "there were still issues with the accuracy of the information that was moving through the NOTAM system." A reboot during the early hours of January 11 was “not sufficiently validated," ...
The FAA thought the problem was resolved but it wasn't, the people said, so the agency later decided to reboot the system altogether and on Wednesday morning ordered a ground stop, which holds planes scheduled to depart. The NOTAM system does have a backup, but both the primary and ...
The Federal Aviation Administration said that its Notice to Air Missions system, or NOTAM, had failed and was not processing new information. The system, which dates to the middle of the last century, gives pilots real-time updates on flight conditions. According to the FAA'swebsite, NOTAM c...
A disk failure in an aging server from Sun Microsystems Inc. caused a key Federal Aviation Administration database to crash and be unavailable for nearly 20 hours late last month, according to the FAA. The Notam, or notice to airmen, system went down late on the night of May 22. The ...
Committee chair Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., pressed Nolen to build more redundancy into the system to avoid another meltdown. Part of the NOTAM system is 30 years old, although most airline flights use a newer system, Nolen said. But during the failure, all flights were stopped. ...
The NOTAM failure led to around 10,000 flights being delayed. By Steve Huff Business News Thousands Of U.S. Flights Paused Due to FAA Systems Outage Planes across the country were halted as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it experienced a system outage. Business News ...
"The FAA made the necessary repairs to the system and has taken steps to make the NOTAM system more resilient. The agency is acting quickly to adopt any other lessons learned in our efforts to ensure the continuing robustness of the nation's air traffic control system," the FAA said in a...
Air Missions (NOTAM) system, which alerts pilots and other personnel about airborne issues and airport delays, resulting in the cancellation of more than 1,000 flights canceled and thousands more delayed. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and FAA officials are investigating the computer failure. ...
Secretary of Transportation Peter Buttigiegtweetedthat the FAA is conducting a "system review" at his direction to ensure a similar outage does not occur again. Communication breakdown The shutdown was traced back to a failure of a communication system calledNOTAM, or Notice to Air Missions. Befor...