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The NOTAM system failed at 8:28 p.m. ET on Tuesday, according to FAA advisories. In efforts to keep departures flying overnight, the FAA used a telephone hotline. But the telephone system was ...
The FAA said in 2023 it planned to discontinue an older NOTAM system by mid-2025. According to agency officials, an FAA contractor unintentionally deleted files in the NOTAM system, causing the ...
The contractors working on the Federal Aviation Administration's NOTAM system apparently deleted files by accident, leading to the delays and cancellations of thousands of US flights.
A preliminary investigation of the incident demonstrated to FAA investigators that a "damaged database file" may have caused the outage of the FAA's Notice to Air Missions system, responsible for notifying pilots of safety hazards. [4] The FAA told CNN that there was "no evidence of a cyberattack" on its NOTAM system. [4]
NOTAM (D) information includes, among other topics, such data as taxiway closures, personnel and equipment near or crossing runways, and airport lighting aids that do not affect instrument approach criteria, such as VASI. Flight Data Center (FDC) NOTAMs
A Digital NOTAM (DIGITAM), is a data set made available through digital services containing information concerning the establishment, condition or change in any aeronautical facility, service, procedure or hazard, the timely knowledge of which is essential to systems and automated equipment used by personnel concerned with flight operations.
The critical system is separate from air traffic control, which keeps planes a safe distance from each other. The outage may cause residual delays Sunday morning. Getty Images
The Aeronautical Fixed Telecommunications Network (AFTN) is a worldwide system of aeronautical fixed circuits provided, as part of the Aeronautical Fixed Service, for the exchange of messages and/or digital data between aeronautical fixed stations having the same or compatible communications characteristics. AFTN comprises aviation entities ...