Flights across the U.S. affected after FAA experiences computer outage - NBC News

Flights crossed the United States were affected Wednesday greeting aft the Federal Aviation Administration said it experienced a machine outage.

All flights successful the U.S. were grounded pursuing the incident, a root with cognition of the concern told NBC News.

The FAA said successful a announcement connected its website that its Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) strategy had "failed" Wednesday morning. A NOTAM is simply a announcement containing accusation indispensable to workers progressive successful formation operations.

More than 1,200 flights within, into and retired of the U.S. were delayed arsenic of astir 7 a.m. Wednesday morning, according to online formation tracker FlightAware. Just implicit 100 flights were listed arsenic cancelled.

"Operations crossed the National Airspace System are affected," the FAA said successful a statement.

Flights implicit the United States astatine 7 a.m. ET connected Jan. 11, 2023. Flight Aware

"The FAA is moving to reconstruct its Notice to Air Missions System. We are performing last validation checks and repopulating the strategy now," it said.

In an update posted to Twitter conscionable earlier 7 a.m., the FAA said it was inactive moving to afloat reconstruct the NOTAM strategy pursuing the outage.

"While immoderate functions are opening to travel backmost connected line, National Airspace System operations stay limited," it said.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said successful a tweet that helium had "been successful interaction with FAA this greeting astir an outage affecting a cardinal strategy for providing information accusation to pilots."

"FAA is moving to resoluteness this contented swiftly and safely truthful that aerial postulation tin resume mean operations, and volition proceed to supply updates," helium said.

United Airlines said successful a tweet it had temporarily delayed each home flights and would contented an update erstwhile it learned much from the FAA astir the situation.

Southwest Airlines said it was "closely monitoring" the concern and said it "may interaction the commencement of operations" Wednesday.

The quality came aft a fig of societal media users said they had been impacted by the situation.

"An FAA strategy outage is causing crushed stops astatine AUS and different airports crossed the country," the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport said successful a tweet.

"Arriving & departing passengers tin expect delays this greeting & done the day," it said, adding: "Please enactment successful interaction with your hose & cheque your formation presumption earlier heading to AUS."

A fig of airports extracurricular the U.S. said operations were continuing arsenic normal.

"As acold arsenic we are aware, we are inactive operating to/from the U.S. astatine the moment," a spokesperson for Gatwick Airport successful London said.

A spokesperson for the Frankfurt Airport successful Germany said the FAA outage had not affected its operations.

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