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Morning hours. then it started to snowball. the notice to air missions computer system that provides critical information about runway closures or maybe theres construction equipment on the ramp or fire department activity, that computer system went down. you need that computer system because pilots need to know what to expect at the airport that they are going to. and they really should thot be leaving their origination aurpt until they have that data in front of them. not only can they print i...

The FAA saying on its website this morning that its "Notice to Air Missions" computer system had failed.

The FAA saying on its website this morning that its "Notice to Air Missions" computer system had failed.

The bottom line is, this is how pilots receive updated information about airline -- or rather airport conditions, runway conditions, whether there might be an obstacle they might need to be aware of. this is how they get that data for every flight that theyre about to take and that computer system went down sometime we think in the 5:00 a.m. hour. the faa immediately at 7:00 a.m. put in a halt, halting all domestic commercial airline departures and as a result that created a pretty significant b...

The FAA saying on its website this morning that its "Notice to Air Missions" computer system had failed.

MEDFORD, Ore. -- Medford airports office says a nationwide computer system outage for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had minimal effect on local flights.

Antiquated system, certainly dont know whats happening. its possible a computer glitch. anytime, we should mention this, anytime something like this happens, questions raised about some sort of hacking or cyber attack. chatter there, tom, officials are looking into? >> i had the exact same question this morning and asked the question, any signs of a hack and so far dont have an answer to that. im not sure that yet theyve been able to do the forensics analysis to tell me that as well. to joes poi...

Even worse. relentless rainstorms have led to the deaths of 17 people. hundreds of homes have been damaged. some ripped right off their foundations. ill speak live to the local sheriff about how they are coping, even as they brace for yet another full week of rain. but we start with this tidal wave of flight delays and cancellations that swept across the country early today. the latest in a series of widespread meltdowns that have repeatedly in recent months left thousands of passengers strand...

The air at that time. >> is this a system that needed to be updated? is it just kind of old now and glitched? >> well, notoms have been around since the beginning of time, at least when i started as a kid, 100 years ago -- [ laughter ]. >> and disseminated different ways. but you know, now, it is all computer-based, so i think what needs to be updated is some redundancy in the computer system. it really smells to me like a computer glitch. so you know, in this particular case, what is the backup...

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