The press service of the US Federal Civil Aviation Department (FAA) named a damaged file of the proposed reason for the failure of the notification system of air missions.
“A failure in the system of notifications about air missions (NOTAM) could be caused by a damaged file,” the FAA said in a message, Forbes.
The damaged file, which, allegedly led to a collapse, was detected during the audit. The report notes that the evidence that it could be cyber attack, “at the moment there is no.”
According to the source of the NBC channel, the damaged file affected the operation of both the main and reserve version of NOTAM.
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.