The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is still trying to determine the cause of a system outage that led to a nationwide ground stop on Wednesday.
According to a statement from the FAA, the outage was traced to a corrupted database file. The FAA is continuing to investigate the outage and take steps to prevent similar disruptions in the future.
The outage began Tuesday afternoon and lasted until early Wednesday morning, when the primary Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system was reset. The NOTAM system is used to relay potential safety-related information to those using the airspace.
The FAA is still working to understand why backup systems failed to keep the NOTAM system running. A government official familiar with the investigation told CNN that the FAA is trying to determine whether any one person or “routine entry” into the database is responsible for the corrupted file.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are demanding answers, and hundreds of flights were delayed in the U.S. Thursday morning as a result of the glitch. Former NTSB chair has said that the FAA must take steps to ensure that similar disruptions do not occur in the future.
Key takeaways:
- The FAA is still trying to determine the cause of a system outage that led to a nationwide ground stop on Wednesday.
- The outage was traced to a corrupted database file and the FAA is continuing to investigate.
- Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are demanding answers and the FAA must take steps to ensure similar disruptions do not occur in the future.
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