Flights around the country were grounded this morning due to an outage with an important Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) system for pilots.
Earlier this morning the FAA said it was grounding all flights until 9 a.m. ET this morning in order to “validate the integrity of flight and safety information,” stemming from outage with its Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system.
Per an update from the FAA, departures are resuming at Newark Liberty airport (EWR) and Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport (ATL). The agency expects departures at other airports to resume at 9 a.m ET.
The NOTAM system sends out flight hazards and restrictions to pilots prior to takeoff. A NOTAM bulletin can sometimes be as long as a couple hundred pages detailing issues like possible bird activity or closed runways.
Flights currently in the air are allowed to travel to their destinations, however all flights scheduled to take off have been grounded.
Per the Air Traffic Control System Command Center, the NOTAM system went down around 3:28 am ET.
ABC News reported that a senior official briefed on the matter said the software issue led to a “cascading” series of IT failures, leading to this morning’s flight groundings.
As of 7:15 a.m., more than 1,200 flights have been delayed into or out of the U.S., which was shortly before the FAA announced the pause.
Airline stocks are all trading lower in the pre-market before the opening bell on Wall Street.
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