FAA system restored after outage that halted all domestic flight departures in the U.S. (Christmas, politicians)

[Roboteer]

High-tech systems are here to help us. So they say.

Computer problems stopped thousands of flights a few weeks ago during a cold snap. And now they've stopped or delayed thousands more.

This is progress?

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...tage-rcna65243

FAA system restored after outage that halted all domestic flight departures in the U.S.

Jan. 11, 2023, 3:20 AM PST / Updated Jan. 11, 2023, 10:56 AM PST
by Jay Blackman, Chantal Da Silva, Ken Dilanian and Corky Siemaszko

Flights across the United States resumed Wednesday morning, several hours after the Federal Aviation Administration suffered a computer outage that forced it to halt all departures nationwide while it scrambled to resolve the issue. The FAA said the crippling delays that affected thousands of flights appear to have been caused by a problem in the Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system, which sends pilots vital information they need to fly.

Investigators have seen no evidence of a cyberattack, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.

The delays came just weeks after Southwest Airlines caused travel chaos by canceling more than 2,500 of its flights during the Christmas season.

The FAA lifted the ground stop around 8:50 a.m. and normal air traffic operations began resuming gradually. But by then airports across the country were already crowded with frustrated travelers and a backlog of flights. As of noon, more than 7,300 flights within, to and out of the U.S. were delayed, according to the online flight tracker FlightAware. More than 1,100 flights were listed as canceled.

[TMSRetired]

The cracks in our system are starting to show....

[sprez33]

Originally Posted by TMSRetired

The cracks in our system are starting to show....

Yeah but we have a failed small town mayor in charge of the US transportation system. Nothing else will go wrong.

[TMSRetired]

Originally Posted by sprez33

Yeah but we have a failed small town mayor in charge of the US transportation system. Nothing else will go wrong.

I think up next is the supply chain. CA has the biggest ports of entry for our "stuff".
Right now trucks built before a certain year are not allowed on the roads...climate change.
And CA's rules are only going to get worse to the point of no trucks would meet their standards.

[Mathguy]

Originally Posted by TMSRetired

The cracks in our system are starting to show....

Any disruption seems to be a harbinger to the next apocalypse.

[Retroit]

Biden and Buttigag to the rescue once again. Just ask Latrine John-Pair.

(sarcasm)

[andrea3821]

My first thought when I heard this was “good ol’ technology *eyeroll*.” And people think AI will replace all work. Just no.

[Kristinas_Cap]

Originally Posted by TMSRetired

I think up next is the supply chain. CA has the biggest ports of entry for our "stuff".
Right now trucks built before a certain year are not allowed on the roads...climate change.
And CA's rules are only going to get worse to the point of no trucks would meet their standards.

the politicians and the people who vote for this nonsense should be carting the freight on their backs. for the climate.

[Ponderosa]

Computers work day in day out, year in year out to make our enterprise run more smoothly. And for two hours one day in all those days and years, they go down and peeps decry and lament technology labeling tech progress as a miserable failure. Makes no sense.