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Thousands of passengers have been left stranded across the US after a system outage affected the Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM), which alerts pilots of potential flight route hazards.
Antiquated system, certainly don't know what's happening. it's 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 don't have an answer to that. i'm not sure that yet they've been able to do the forensics analysis to tell me that as well. to joe's point about the system that needs to be modernized, you may recall on january 2nd, right? the bu...
Now that the system is up - and running our primary focus is to determine that root cause and i have directed the faa to figure out - exactly how this happened, the timeline piece by piece| about what was known overnight going into last_ night and then coming out of it. an outage like this raises questions about the fragility of the whole system. they have been trying to modernise notam for years despite critical underfunding. in december, southwest, the fourth—largest airline in the us, cancelled more than 16,000 flights because their outdated technology, had struggled to keep track of pilo...
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 to it? and that's i what should be worked on. how did this happen. >> you prevent it by having a be...
Hello, welcome to the programme. the white house says "there is no evidence" a cyberattack was behind the computer glitch that led to the grounding of every domestic flight this morning that was not already in the air. it caused huge disruption across the united states, with thousands of delays, as the federal aviation authority attempted to reboot it. the problem was discovered within the notice to air missions system. known as notam. it alerts pilots to important safety information that could affect the flight. closed runways, hazards around airfields, air shows, parachute jumps that sort of...