Airports in the United States have been totally paralyzed by a computer failure in the NOTAM application, which prevented domestic flights from taking off.
The Federal Aviation Administration of the United States has given the green light to the departures of domestic flights that it had previously ordered to be suspended due to a computer problem.
In a message on Twitter, the FAA has indicated that “normal air traffic operations are gradually resuming in the US after an overnight failure of the Air Mission Notification System that provides safety information to flight crews.”
Along these lines, he explained that they continue to investigate the cause of the initial problem. Despite this announcement, the number of delays has increased and, according to flight tracker Flightaware, there are already 4,013 delayed flights in the country.
Early this morning, the FAA had notified its order that all domestic flight departures in the US be postponed until 9:00 a.m. Eastern time in the country (14:00 GMT) due to a failure in the Notification system. of Area Missions.
Said system is a procedure that provides essential information for personnel related to flight operations and warns in real time about an abnormal state in the American aerospace system.
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, was informed by the Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg, of the failure in the airspace control system, reported the White House spokeswoman, Karine Jean-Pierre, in a tweet.
“There is no proof of a cyberattack at the moment,” Jean-Pierre said, adding that Biden has ordered a full investigation to find out what caused it.