The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Thursday that a preliminary investigation found that contract officials “unintentionally deleted files.” sabotage major computer systems, Prompted a nationwide groundstop on Jan. 11, disrupting more than 11,000 people Flight.
According to the FAA, the issue occurred while personnel were working to “fix the synchronization between the live primary database and the backup database.” FAA Said “So far, we have found no evidence of a cyberattack or malicious intent.”
Acting FAA Administrator Billy Nollen said on Friday that lawmakers and staff are asking for more details about the problems with the pilot message database that led to the grounding of outbound flights nationwide for the first time since the September 11, 2001 attacks. will hold a virtual briefing.
US Congress to investigate FAA computer outage that disrupted flights
Last week, the agency said a computer outage in the Notice to Air Mission (NOTAM) messaging system was caused by a procedural error related to corrupted data files. The NOTAM system provides important safety notices to pilots, flight crews, and other users in US airspace.
The FAA said it made the necessary repairs to the system and “taken steps to make the pilot message system more resilient.”
The outage occurred on January 10th, but the FAA groundstop was not issued until the following morning.
A group of more than 120 US lawmakers told the FAA last week: Computer outages are ‘totally unacceptable’ and demanded that officials explain how to avoid future incidents.
The staff of the Senate Commerce Committee also appealed to the FAA. Answer suspension questions“Why were airlines put in a position to choose to operate when the NOTAM system went down?”
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