Flight delays in the US continue to accumulate this Wednesday and already exceed 5,000 despite the uprising A little over an hour ago the order of the federal aviation authority that prohibited domestic departures due to a computer failure. According to flight tracker Flightaware, there are already 5,417 flight delays within, to and from the US and 900 cancellations.
Ten minutes before 9:00 a.m. US Eastern Time (14:00 GMT), the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States (FAA, for its acronym in English) gave the green light to the departures of domestic flights that he had previously ordered to suspend due to a computer problem.
In a message on Twitter, the FAA indicated that “normal air traffic operations are gradually resuming in the US following an overnight failure of the Air Mission Reporting System.”
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It added that it continues to investigate the cause of the initial problem.
Hours earlier, 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 (2:00 p.m. GMT). due to a failure in the Area Missions Notification system.
This system is a procedure that provides essential information for personnel involved in flight operations and warns in real time about an abnormal state in the US aerospace system.
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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 evidence of a cyberattack at this time,” indicated Jean-Pierre, who added that Biden ordered a full investigation to find out the causes.
The US had suffered air chaos two weeks ago, although then it was due to the passage of the winter storm Elliot, which caused thousands of cancellations of
flights.
AFP
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