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Nobility issue

I'm just wondering if a nation wide ground stop is notable since it's just a NOTAM error. -- B-MIKE -(Talk) 12:21, 12 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

engineer mistakenly replaced one file with another during ..?

That does not seem to be an accurate cause of the problem.

"Unspecified “personnel” were responsible for corrupting the file, which led to the outage of an FAA computer system" "When the system began having problems Tuesday night, technicians switched to a backup. But because the backup was attempting to access the same damaged data, it also didn’t work, the person said."^[1]

"The Federal Aviation Administration said a preliminary examination traced the outage to a damaged database file, but the agency is continuing work to pinpoint the cause of the issue." "About 5 a.m. Wednesday, the FAA conducted a “complete reboot” of the system, Buttigieg said. That attempt at a fix was “not sufficiently validated to feel comfortable” that the issues were totally resolved, Buttigieg said.

“At that point, the move was made to institute a ground stop until FAA could completely validate not only that the NOTAMs were populating correctly, but that they were actually getting out to the aircraft,” Buttigieg said."^[2] Malaiya (talk) 02:50, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ FAA says computer failure that grounded thousands of flights was caused by 2 contractors who introduced data errors into NOTAM system, BYALAN LEVIN AND BLOOMBERG, January 13, 2023
^ [https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2023/01/11/faa-flight-delays/ FAA system failure brings fresh round of disruption to U.S. air travel, Ian Duncan, Michael Laris, Katherine Shaver and Lori Aratani, Washington Post, January 11, 2023]

[1] FAA says computer failure that grounded thousands of flights was caused by 2 contractors who introduced data errors into NOTAM system, BYALAN LEVIN AND BLOOMBERG, January 13, 2023

[2] [https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2023/01/11/faa-flight-delays/ FAA system failure brings fresh round of disruption to U.S. air travel, Ian Duncan, Michael Laris, Katherine Shaver and Lori Aratani, Washington Post, January 11, 2023]

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