Updated: Jan 11, 2023, 2:55 PM CET Departures are resuming after the FAA restores the NOTAM system. “Normal air traffic operations are gradually resuming across the United States after an overnight outage of the Notice to Air Missions system that provides flight crew safety information. Ground suspensions have been lifted,” the FAA tweeted. Stated. The agency said it was investigating the cause of the outage.
Flight departures across the United States have been put on hold while the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) attempts to recover from the outage.
The FAA said the problem was in the FAA’s Air Mission Notification (NOTAM) system, which was unavailable as of early Wednesday.
NOTAM transmits critical messages to personnel involved in flight operations, such as abnormal conditions in components of national airspace systems.
“The FAA is working to restore the air mission reporting system. We are currently performing final validation checks and reloading the system,” the FAA said in a tweet Wednesday. The agency followed up by saying, “While some functions begin to come back online, operations of the national airspace system remain restricted.”
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In a third tweet, the FAA said it was “continuing to fully restore its air mission notification system following the outage.”
“The FAA has ordered airlines to suspend all domestic departures until 9 a.m. ET to allow airlines to verify the integrity of flight and safety information,” the FAA said. increase.
The cause of the outage is currently unknown. President Joe Biden has ordered the Department of Transportation (DOT) to investigate the blackout, according to CNN. White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said there was “no evidence of a cyberattack at this time.”
