Wednesday morning was not easy for FAA (Federal Aviation Administration ) as Outage of Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) stopped many aircraft from taking off. FAA acknowledged the crisis and promised of frequent updates on the the progressive solution.
"Operations across the National Airspace System are affected. "We will provide frequent updates as we make progress."
However , the Federal Aviation Administration has now said that normal air traffic operations are resuming across the United States following the overnight outage to its Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system which provides safety information to flight crews.
The Fifth FAA Update that said "The ground stop has been lifted" , gave some hope to the travelers that flights will resume atlast even though most of them delayed.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Civil Aviation agency had ordered the carriers to stop all domestic flight departures in the United States until 9am , as its technical team was at work to restore NOTAM.
In its Update 4 , FAA had mentioned that the departures were resuming at Newark Liberty International Airport (New Jersey) and Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Airport (Georgia) due to air traffic congestion, with departures to resume at other airports at 9 am.
“We are performing final validation checks and reloading the system now,” the FAA said. “Operations across the National Airspace System are affected.”
The agency noted that the NOTAM system “alerts pilots about closed runways, equipment outages, and other potential hazards along a flight route or at a location that could affect the flight.”
“Flights currently in the sky are safe to land,” they added in a tweet. “Pilots check the NOTAM system before they fly.”
US president Joe Biden has been briefed by Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg on the system outage and has directed the Department of Transportation (DoT) to conduct a full investigation into the causes.
Airports across the U.S.A. were facing excess aircraft on ground than its limit.
Ruling out any third party interference on the incident , White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a tweet that "There is no evidence of a cyberattack at this point.”
