there s a thinkorswim® platform for you. still no full explanation for an faa outage today, but officials say they ve traced it to a corrupted database file. it knocked out safety bulletins pilots need to know before taking off. when it went down, flights went nowhere. like i say, this is a nationwide issue. it s not just a local issue. reporter: this is how the day started at airports across the u.s. wednesday. a nationwide ground-stop from the federal aviation administration, the largest since 9/11. the ripple effects of the ground-stop are now affecting thousands of flights. we ve been delayed three times. there are no more flights leaves
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they re going. meantime, in the latest update, federal aviation administration says preliminary work has traced the outage to a damaged database file. at this time, there is no evidence of a cyber attack. the faa is working diligently to further pinpoint the causes of the issue. the system which updates pilots on issues that could affect their flights went out tuesday night, causing the faa to hold all departures. the nationwide ground stop was lifted shortly after 9:00 a.m. wednesday morning with the damage was already done as a cascade of disruptions left frustrated travelers to deal with more than 10,000 flight delays from coast-to-coast. there is just a lot of frustration, a lot of confusion. trying to figure out i should do. speak i thought because of the holidays, that was the main issue. really it is still happening and here we are, two weeks into 2023. meantime republicans in congress are pressing for answers as the white house looks
database file at the center of this meltdown in the notams system, the notices to air mission systems that pilots need to get critical information before they take off. they most read the notams. it gives information about the airport they re going to, the airspace along the route. we re learning the damaged data base file caused the system to melt down on tuesday evening. the faa first realized it then. they tried to reboot not only the main system, but the backup on wednesday morning when they thought it would have the least impact on air travel. that ultimately failed, paralyzing airports around the country for about 90 minutes. a nationwide ground stop, we have not seen that since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. what s also interesting that we re learning from sources is that the faa isn t totally clear just yet on whether or not one person is behind this damaged database file, whether or not it
are gonna need to take a look at that. now that we have gone through the immediate disruptions at morning, it is understanding how this was possible and exactly what steps are needed to make sure that doesn t happen again. and omar jimenez joins me now from newark liberty international airport. so what more do we know about this apparent database glitch? yeah, anderson, so the faa is saying that they have preliminarily traded the outages to that damaged database file. but they are echoing what we have heard from the biden administration to this point that they don t believe, based on the information they have right now, that this was a cyberattack. now as to how we got to this point, a source familiar with the faa operations telling cnn that it was yesterday that they noticed issues with the computer, ultimately a cropped file was found. but they made a plan to reboot the entire system early this morning before the morning rush. but when they did it took a lot longer than they an