![]() ![]() The FAA ordered all departing flights grounded early Wednesday morning, affecting all passenger and cargo flights. The FAA resorted to a telephone hotline to keep departures flying overnight, but as daytime traffic picked up, the phone system became overwhelmed. Tuesday, preventing new or amended notices from being distributed to pilots. "So something unusual happened."Īccording to FAA advisories, the NOTAM system failed at 8:28 p.m. I’ve never heard the system go down like this," Cox said. John Cox, a former airline pilot and aviation safety expert, said there has been talk in the aviation industry for years about trying to modernize the NOTAM system, but he did not know the age of the servers that the FAA uses. Passengers are seen in Romulus, Michigan, United States on December 29, 2022. Many of those systems "are old mainframe systems that are generally reliable, but they are out of date," he said. "Periodically there have been local issues here or there, but this is pretty significant historically," said Tim Campbell, a former senior vice president of air operations at American Airlines and now a consultant in Minneapolis.Ĭampbell said there has long been concern about the FAA's technology, and not just the NOTAM system. Some compared it to the nationwide shutdown of airspace after the 2001 terrorist attacks. Longtime aviation insiders could not recall an outage of such magnitude caused by a technology breakdown. Although the problem was soon fixed, he warned that travelers could expect to see some effects "rippling through the system."īuttigieg said his agency would now try to learn why the NOTAM system went down. "There was a systems issue overnight that led to a ground stop because of the way safety information was moving through the system," Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told a news conference. Katy Nastro with Going, formerly Scott's Cheap Flights, joined LiveNOW from FOX's Josh Breslow to speak more about the impact.Īirports in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Atlanta saw 30% to 40% of flights delayed. 'Going' speaks on nationwide outage, differences from Southwest debacle ![]()
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