According to the investigation of a major incident, which canceled 10 thousand air travel in the United States, the work of a key computer system of notification of NOTAM air missions was violated due to the fact that the airport staff accidentally deleted an important file.
The failure arose when the staff worked on “correcting the problems of synchronization between the current and backup databases. The Federal Civil Aviation Department of the United States (FAA) said that” has not yet discovered any evidence of cyber attacks or evil intent. “Earlier FAA argued that computer The failure was caused by a procedural error associated with damage to the data file.
NOTAM system provides pilots, flight crews and other US airspace users with important flight notifications. FAA carried out the necessary repair of the system and took steps to make a system of pilots more stable messages.
Recall that on January 11, in the United States there was a failure in the notam notification system NOTAM. For several hours, all internal sorties were suspended. As a result, almost 9.6 thousand flights were detained, more than 1.3 thousand were canceled. President Joe Biden instructed the FAA to conduct a full investigation of the causes of what happened.