The cascading collapse of U.S. air travel on Wednesday caused by an air-safety system’s failure was attributed to human error, a senior official with knowledge of the matter told ABC News. An engineer conducting routine maintenance “replaced one file with another,” resulting in the breakdown, the official said. The cause of the system’s disintegration was not immediately apparent to Federal Aviation Administration staff, including the engineer in question. “It was an honest mistake that cost the country millions,” the official said.
Reuters and Bloomberg News reported that FAA officials believed the outage to be tied to a corrupt digital file, which affected not only the main system but also its backup. A roughly 90-minute ground stop was issued by the agency after doubts were raised about the backup system’s functionality, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg explained to reporters earlier on Wednesday. The ABC News report did not identify whether the file the engineer had moved was the corrupted one pinpointed by agency officials. Read more at ABC News.
Given that they keep changing the story but the only thing that they stay insistent on is that it was not a hack attack, I am more likely to believe that it was a hack and they are trying to either save face or avoid war.
A poster in an earlier article said: “hundreds of military jets took precedence.”
even civilian flights can takeoff with NOTAM down, but there are very restrictive criteria that most airliners don’t meet.
Oh, okay. I’ll take their word for it. I believe whatever our beloved government tells us.
The fact that NOTAM was down was due to an engineer’s error. The massive total flight cancellation, however, was due to the stupidity and incompetence of the menuval faigala appointed by Biden to run the dept of transportation — Pete Buttigieg. His report said the flights were cancelled due to an Abundance Of Caution. A smarter manager would have been better able to weigh the Abundance Of Caution against the resultant obvious disaster caused by canceling all US flights. Any street retard would be a smarter manager…