A control system failure affects flights in all US airspace.

The Federal Aviation Administration of USA (FAAfor its acronym in English) is working to restore its notification system after a failure that affected scheduled flights throughout US airspace, which were grounded until 14:30 GMT.

As reported by the FAA on its Twitter account, the Federal Administration proceeded to carry out validation checks and restart the system to restore normality after the failure, which affected the entire US National Airspace System.

According to the American flight tracker FlightAware, there were about 2,500 planes delayed as a result of this computer failure.

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After the first operations started to restore normal air traffic, the Aviation Administration specified that it had managed to restore “some functions”but the operations of the airspace control system were still “limited”.

The Air Mission Notification System is a procedure that provides essential information to personnel related to flight operations and warns in real time of abnormal status in the US aerospace system.

The President of the United States, Joe Biden, was informed by the Secretary of Transportation about the interruption of the airspace control system, the White House reported on Twitter, while explaining that “There is no evidence of a cyber attack at this time.”

In any case, Biden ordered the Department of Transportation to open a full investigation into the causes of this failure.

The US had suffered air chaos two weeks ago, although then it was due to the passage of winter storm Elliot, which caused thousands of flight cancellations.

Source: EFE