All United States domestic air travel came to an abrupt halt early Wednesday morning after a computer at the Federal Aviation Administration, crashed. All US aircraft were GROUNDED pending a fix.
All flights across the US were grounded due to a glitch with the Federal Aviation Administration's computer system this morning.
All outbound flights have been grounded until 9am Eastern Time (2pm GMT) as the Federal Aviation Administration worked to restore its Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system, which alerts pilots of potential hazards along a flight route.
Some 3,704 flights within, into or out of the US have been delayed today, according to flight tracker FlightAware.com, while 558 have been cancelled. Most delays were concentrated along the East Coast.
JUST IN - All flights across US grounded due to FAA computer outage.
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the FAA Kept the public advised:
Cleared Update No. 2 for all stakeholders: ⁰⁰The FAA is still working to fully restore the Notice to Air Missions system following an outage. ⁰⁰While some functions are beginning to come back on line, National Airspace System operations remain limited.
— The FAA ✈️ (@FAANews) January 11, 2023
The FAA is working to restore its Notice to Air Missions System. We are performing final validation checks and reloading the system now.
— The FAA ✈️ (@FAANews) January 11, 2023
Operations across the National Airspace System are affected.
We will provide frequent updates as we make progress.
They hope to have the system up, running and all flights restored, by 9:00 AM eastern US time.
They hope . . .
UPDATE 9:38 AM EST --
The FAA has lifted a ground stop it placed on all U.S. domestic flights Wednesday and said normal air traffic operations are gradually resuming nationwide. The domestic flights were stopped earlier Wednesday morning as the FAA worked to restore its Notice to Air Missions system.
In a tweet, the FAA said "Normal air traffic operations are resuming gradually across the U.S. following an overnight outage to the Notice to Air Missions system that provides safety info to flight crews. The ground stop has been lifted."
All domestic flights in the United States came to a standstill Wednesday morning while the Federal Aviation Administration worked to restore its Notice to Air Missions system after an outage.
The FAA ordered all airlines to pause domestic departures until 9 a.m. EST, to allow the agency "to validate the integrity of flight and safety information."
