FAA.gov, on its today's flight delays information page shows that the computer problem is fixed. However there is huge backlog of flights due to the earlier computer problems that caused Air Train to cancel 22 flights and create number of delays nationwide.
It was mainly Atlanta and Houston airports effected. The outage had caused the air traffic controller to manage flights manually. However, FAA said air traffic controllers had radio contact with the pilots.
"FAA spokesman Paul Takemoto said the system went out at 5:06 a.m. ET and came back on about five hours later. He said officials working to pinpoint the cause know that there was a problem with the main telecommunications systems," reports CNN.
FAA says this was not really a safety problem. Rather, the computer problem was an efficiency problem. However, in our humble opinion, every little details with flights has to do with safety, since so much is put on the table.
NY Times reminds that the same system had failed once in 2008. However, it's not known if the cause was the same this year. "The system, the National Airspace Data Interchange Network, situated in Atlanta with a backup in Salt Lake City, was a casualty of another failure in the tightly linked, one official at the Federal Aviation Administration said. Technicians were still trying to determine the cause of the glitch," reports the newspaper.
Now the passengers are faced with flight delays in many airports. The imperative for the FAA is quickly to find the cause, so we can prevent it next time.
Written by Armen Hareyan
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