Update (1426ET):
Nav Canada, the not-for-profit corporation that operates Canada’s civil air navigation system, reports the Candian real-time safety alerts system for pilots, otherwise known as NOTAM — short for Notice to Air Mission — has been hit with an outage.
So far, no delays have been attributed to the outage.
“We are assessing impacts to our operations and will provide updates as soon as they are available,” Nav Canada said.
— NAV CANADA (@navcanada) January 11, 2023
This is the second NOTAM system in North America over the last 12 hours that has been hit with outages. As we explained below, the US grounded all planes earlier this morning due to NOTAM outages but restored departures around 0900 ET.
The disruption was enough to spark a travel nightmare for US travelers today and is worsening by the hour. The latest figures from flight tracking website FlightAware show 8,000 flights have been delayed and another 1,200 canceled.
So how do authorities explain the US and Canada’s NOTAM systems experiencing outages on the same day?
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Update (1210ET):
This is one travel mess the airlines can deflect and blame the federal government.
Three hours after the FAA reopened the skies after a nationwide grounding of all commercial jets following a computer outage, there are 7,000 flights delayed and another 1,000 canceled, according to flight tracking website FlightAware.
People are not happy with Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg:
MAYOR Pete an expert? Where in the hell was the backup system dude? When system updates occur usually a backup or parallel system is running to make sure the update installed correctly.Delayed flights will happen and backup airports.
— Susan Kienle (@profskienle) January 11, 2023
Remember FAA is too busy going ‘woke’ to care about other important things.
If you’re surprised that the FAA’s systems went down this morning grounding all domestic flights, you shouldn’t be.
Below are DOT and FAA’s approps focus in the 2023 budget:
“Racial equity,” “inclusion,” “income inequality,” “environmental justice, and “climate change.” pic.twitter.com/83N70Qs0aj
— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) January 11, 2023
Look what’s trending on Twitter.
People aren’t happy with Buttigieg.
Pete Buttigieg couldn’t organize a one-car funeral.
He was never remotely qualified for this role.
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) January 11, 2023
How many more transportation screwups are we going to tolerate from @PeteButtigieg. pic.twitter.com/u34XbsKGYl
— Stealthwave (she/it) 🔴 (@Stealth1014) January 11, 2023
.@PeteButtigieg is running a master class on how to f-up a political career. Somehow he was in better shape when he was just a former Mayor of a small town in Indiana.
— Michael Biundo (@MichaelBiundo) January 11, 2023
@PeteButtigieg you suck ass at your job. No pun intended
— ZMT (@RDZT44) January 11, 2023
Pete Buttigieg must have been busy “chest” feeding and dropped the ball.
— Intellectual Self Defense (@BenoJosi) January 11, 2023
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Update (0900ET):
“Normal air traffic operations are resuming gradually across the US following an overnight outage to the Notice to Air Missions system that provides safety info to flight crews. The ground stop has been lifted,” FAA tweeted.
But, grounding all domestic flights for hours has sparked travel chaos this morning. There are currently 4,000 delays within, into, or out of the US, flight tracking website FlightAware showed. Another 700 were canceled.
And then there’s this…
If you’re surprised that the FAA’s systems went down this morning grounding all domestic flights, you shouldn’t be.
Below are DOT and FAA’s approps focus in the 2023 budget:
“Racial equity,” “inclusion,” “income inequality,” “environmental justice, and “climate change.” pic.twitter.com/83N70Qs0aj
— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) January 11, 2023
What a mess. At least airlines, this time around, can blame the government for flight disruptions.
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Update (0742ET):
President Biden has been briefed about the FAA’s system failure.
*PRESIDENT HAS BEEN BRIEFED ON FAA SYSTEM OUTAGE, PRESS SEC SAYS
*JEAN-PIERRE: NO EVIDENCE OF CYBERATTACK AT THIS POINT
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) January 11, 2023
And now domestic departures halts will extend 30 minutes until 0930 ET.
*US FAA DOMESTIC DEPARTURES PAUSE EXTENDED TO 9:30 AM ET: CBS
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) January 11, 2023
Hmmm.
*BIDEN: FAA EXPECTS IN A FEW HOURS TO HAVE A SENSE OF CAUSE
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) January 11, 2023
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Update (0730ET):
FAA ordered all airlines to halt domestic departures until 0900 ET.
Update 3: The FAA is still working to fully restore the Notice to Air Missions system following an outage.⁰⁰The FAA has ordered airlines to pause all domestic departures until 9 a.m. Eastern Time to allow the agency to validate the integrity of flight and safety information.
— The FAA ✈️ (@FAANews) January 11, 2023
So far, 1,366 flights have been delayed within, into, or out of the US, flight tracking website FlightAware showed. Another 108 were canceled.
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Update (0719ET):
“The FAA is still working to fully restore the Notice to Air Missions system following an outage … some functions are beginning to come back online, National Airspace System operations remain limited,” FAA tweeted.
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
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Early Wednesday morning, the US Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) system that notifies pilots about hazards or any changes to airport facility services suffered an outage that might result in a nationwide grounding.
The FAA wrote in an advisory update that its NOTAM (Notice to Air Missions) system had “failed.” The aviation agency provided no immediate estimate for when it would return online.
“THE FAA is experiencing an outage that is impacting the update of NOTAMS. All flights are unable to be released at this time,” the FAA said in a statement.
In a statement to NBC News, the FAA said, “Operations across the National Airspace System are affected.”
So far, 1,162 flights have been delayed within, into, or out of the US, flight tracking website FlightAware showed. Another 94 were canceled.
Flights are being grounded nationwide.
Just an FYI if you are planning to fly today (as I sit on a plane I boarded at 5am), FAA’s NOTAM system is down and basically all planes within and coming in and out of the U.S. are grounded. Our pilot says they have no idea when it will be functioning again. So. pic.twitter.com/4iW11Ns2vr
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) January 11, 2023
BREAKING NEWS: 🚨🚨
Dozens of flights have been delayed at Charleston International airport due to a FAA computer malfunction.
We haven’t seen any flights leave Charleston in the past 40-45 minutes.
Tune into @ABCNews4 for the latest updates #Working4You pic.twitter.com/kcZugsJaqo— Sean Mahoney (@SeanMahoneyTV) January 11, 2023
It’s probably not a good time to fly this morning.
BREAKING: Widespread U.S. flight delays expected after critical FAA system goes down; agency currently working on getting it back online pic.twitter.com/DVQAw4nsTE
— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) January 11, 2023
Passengers are beginning to complain on social media about delayed flights.
FAA computer outage has grounded flights nationwide this morning. Boarded at 5:30AM as the first flight of the day. Currently delayed indefinitely. Idk if I’ll be making this cruise out of Florida… 😢🌴🚢 pic.twitter.com/SBy8q2sD2N
— Stephanie Grindley (@StephanieGTV) January 11, 2023
FAA outage also affecting flights abroad. Our flight from FCO – PHL is halted on the runway.
— Allie Evans (@whattheklutz) January 11, 2023
The FAA has grounded all flights due to a computer outage. Sitting on a plane @EWRairport on @UnitedAirlines pic.twitter.com/Rlq5OBmiJd
— Alan Smith (@alan_f_smith) January 11, 2023
Currently sitting on the runway and am seeing that the FAA is grounding all flights in the US for a system outage…
if yal gone cancel, do it now so I can go get back in my bed 😩🙏🏽
— Jay Dub (@TheSweetest_Jay) January 11, 2023
Sitting in DCA, they just told us there is a nation-wide FAA outage. No flights are moving anywhere. Anyone have any clue what’s going on?
— GChris (@GChris65) January 11, 2023
@AmericanAir I’ve been sitting on a full plane at the gate at LAX for 2+ hours for a system issue with the FAA. When will this be resolved? #flightdelay
— Lynn (@birdsonglynn1) January 11, 2023
Tyler Durden
Wed, 01/11/2023 – 14:26
