US glitch grounds flights
A US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) system outage led to delays at airports across the country because of “ground stops”, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport said on Wednesday.
The FAA said that it was working to restore a system that alerts pilots to hazards and changes to airport facilities and procedures that had stopped processing updated information. “The FAA is still working to fully restore the Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system following an outage. While some functions are beginning to come back online, National Airspace System operations remain limited,” it said on Twitter.
Shortly before 8:30am (local time) departures were resuming at Newark and Atlanta airports “due to air traffic congestion in those areas. We expect departures to resume at other airports at 9am ET”.
