Anonymous 01/13/2023 (Fri) 17:35 Id: 53b597 No.116317 del
Reason Flights Were Grounded for Hours is Revealed
Jan 13, 2023

On Wednesday morning, over 11,300 flights were delayed or canceled after a Federal Aviation Administration system failure led to a nationwide grounding order. Mystery and widespread speculation have surrounded the cause of this major incident until now. It has been reported by the FAA that the entire nation’s air travel was halted due to a mistake made by a singular corrupt file.

Air traffic control officials reportedly noticed an issue with their systems late on Tuesday. They tried rebooting the system early on Wednesday morning to disrupt air travel as minimally as possible, however, this reboot process resulted in a nationwide NOTAM failure.

Although the system reportedly came back up after the reboot, it wasn’t functioning at its full capacity, prompting the FAA to issue the nationwide ground stop around 7:30 am on Wednesday.

According to an FAA official, an engineer unknowingly “replaced one file with another,” causing the whole Notice to Air Missions System (NOTAM) to fail for several hours.

“It was an honest mistake that cost the country millions,” reported the official.

On Wednesday night, the FAA reported, “Our preliminary work has traced the outage to a damaged database file. At this time there is no evidence of a cyberattack.”

The damaged file was also found in the backup system.

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