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Flights Across US Grounded After Systemwide FAA Outage

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Flights Across US Grounded After Systemwide FAA Outage

Update (0742ET):

President Biden has been briefed about the FAA’s system failure. 

And now domestic departures halts will extend 30 minutes until 0930 ET.

Hmmm. 

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Update (0730ET):

FAA ordered all airlines to halt domestic departures until 0900 ET. 

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.

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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. 

It’s probably not a good time to fly this morning. 

Passengers are beginning to complain on social media about delayed flights. 

*Developing 

Tyler Durden
Wed, 01/11/2023 – 07:30

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