The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is lifting a nationwide ground stop on domestic flights. A widespread computer outage kept commercial pilots from receiving flight and safety updates.
FAA technicians had restored the Notice to Air Missions System by 9 a.m. ET, and some flights have resumed.
The Department of Transportation is conducting a full-scale investigation. Officials say “there is no evidence of a cyberattack at this point.”
As Fox News reports:
At 8 a.m. Eastern, there were more than 2,500 delayed flights within, into or out of the United States, according to the flight tracking website FlightAware, exceeding the number of all delayed flights on the previous day. More than 150 have been canceled. Those numbers are likely to grow.
More than 21,000 flights were scheduled to take off in the U.S. today, mostly domestic trips, and about 1,840 international flights expected to fly to the U.S., according to aviation data firm Cirium.
Biden addressed the FAA issue Wednesday before leaving the White House. He said he had just been briefed by Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who told him they still had not identified what went wrong.
“I just spoke to Buttigieg. They don’t know what the cause is. But I was on the phone with him about 10 minutes,” Biden said. “I told him to report directly to me when they find out. Air traffic can still land safely, just not take off right now. We don’t know what the cause of it is.”
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