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A NOTAM (Notice to Airmen, [1] [2] Notice to Air Men, [3] Notice to Airman [4] or Notice to Air Missions [5]) is a notice filed with an aviation authority to alert aircraft pilots of potential hazards along a flight route or at a location that could affect the flight. [6]
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]
Here is a brief summary of what the pilot warning system does, what we know about what went wrong and background about the safety notices provided to pilots, known as NOTAM. The FAA system that is ...
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.
Automatic terminal information service, or ATIS, is a continuous broadcast of recorded aeronautical information in busier terminal areas.ATIS broadcasts contain essential information, such as current weather information, active runways, available approaches, and any other information required by the pilots, such as important NOTAMs.
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 NOTAM system sends pilots vital information they need to fly. The system was restored later that day. On Jan. 11, the FAA sent out a tweet at 7:20 a.m. ordering the airlines to pause all ...
Direct User Access Terminal Service (DUATS) was a weather information and flight plan processing service contracted by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in 1989 [1] for use by United States civil pilots and other authorized users. The DUAT Service was a telephone- and Internet-based system which allowed the pilot to use a personal ...