plastic that controllers use and moved around to radar screen which was flat so they wouldn't slide off. gillian: sounds terrifying. >> it was the norm and the way the system worked. they brought in the system called arts 3 in which everything was automated, it was computer driven and all the handoffs from this controller to next controller were driven by the computer but the technology continues to grow. gillian: so we have made advances is the good news, i certainly hope so. one solution that was interesting to me. my colleague bill melugin interviewed bradbery. >> it's been around a very long time and the last faa and essential subject to discussion. it was not included in the legislation. i have no doubt that the events that just occurred with respect to the notice to air mission system, notam system are going
base file. at this time, there is no evidence of a cyber attack. according to a senior government official, that damaged data base file affected both the primary and backup systems. the notice to air mission system sends pilots vital information that they need to fly. it is separate from air traffic control that keeps planes a safe distance from one another. transportation secretary pete buttigieg directed an after-action process for the faa writing in a tweet, at my direction, faa is continuing its system review. faa will continue its work to further pinpoint the sources of this issue and steps to prevent it from occurring again. yesterday's outage delayed more than 10,000 flights and over 1,000 more were cancelled across the country. joining us now, president and ceo of u.s. travel association jeff freeman. u.s. travel is a national
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) has recently conducted another flight test to demonstrate the capability of its Autonomous Collaborative Platform (ACP) mission system.
safety and the smooth facilitation of our actual transportation system. what say you, leslie? >> leslie: i wouldn't take all of that from a few photo ups or tweets. congressman nancy mace wants to pass legislation that the transportation secretary we have to fly on commercial flights i think is a waste of taxpayer time and money, which is not, which is not -- let us look at the system. i want to get the name right. it was an outage of notice to error mission system. here are the reasons they had to stop, have faith. people could have died. pilots have to be able to fly the plane too. democrats are questioning the money. where is the money going? because obviously, you have to put money into these systems so we have preventative mode and plan a, b, c. >> harris: what did they do? >> leslie: the money was created because of covid. >> gerri: that is not their money. that is our money.
issue swiftly and safely so air traffic can resume normal operations and will continue to provide updates. >> brian: cheryl casone joins us now. a big deal. can you imagine what the airports are like all across the country? >> be nice to flight crews. got a new update from the faa. they are still working to restore it's notice to air mission system. that's the information that goes to the pilots. >> steve: notam. all domestic departures to allow the agency to validate the flight and safety. they have been trying to restart this system for the last hour and a half. >> brian: good news it was 10:00. >> nows 9:00. >> steve: united 10:00. >> all airlines. report that they were getting the paperwork to the pilots like in minneapolis. i saw that report this morning. but that's not happening right now. >> steve: like that jet we just saw out at newark. that is probably a plane that has landed. and is incoming. look at that.
outbound flights until 9:00 eastern time this after a massive system outage at the faa. todd piro is here with what we know so far and it's not much much. >> not good either. the federal aviation administration announcing total system failure nationwide impacting hundreds if not thousands of flights. take a live look again. orlando, airport there is the scene all flights delayed until further notice there we mentioned the #:00 a.m. stop as well throughout the entire nation. faa tweeting it is, get: experiencing an outage with its notice to air mission system which pro-civil rights critical flight safety information. we are closely monitoring the situation which impacts all airlines and working with the faa to minimize disruption to our operation and customers. we encourage customers to check aa -- this is the double a american airlines information here. they are encouraging to you check their website for more information. as of now flight aware is reporting over 1200 flights
>> trying to restart the system and apparently this notice to air mission system updates regularly. talks about everything from airport closings to weather situations, to any possible hazards. large or small, that may be along the route for international flights, sometimes you can have 200 pages of information that these pilots will have as it just keeps coming and updates, again, everything that might be in a particular flight's path. right now, though, that system is shut down, and it says, again, the faa says nine minutes ago we are performing final validation checks and reloading the system now. what do we got -- no word how long it will be before reloaded. a lot of questions obviously will be raised that need to be answered. how in the world this could happen and whether the system was hacked or just old technology that needs to be