US airports are trying to return to normal this Thursday after a chaotic day in which more than 10,000 flights were canceled or delayed due to a computer problem that is being investigated.
According to data from the portal FlightAwarethis Thursday at least 91 flights have been canceled and some 814 are experiencing delays.
Some numbers are still significant, but they are far from the 9,200 flights delayed on Wednesday and more than 1,300 canceled due to the failure in the notification system of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAAin English).
In its last statement issued on Wednesday afternoon, the FAA explained that the failure was probably due to a corrupted database file.
“The FAA continues to run a detailed analysis to determine the root of the system failure.”, he assured.
Around 07:25 local time on Wednesday (12:25 GMT) the FAA ordered that domestic flight departures in the United States be postponed until 09:00 (14:00 GMT) due to a failure in the aforementioned system, which provides essential information for personnel related to flight operations and warns in real time of an abnormal state in the US aerospace system.
The president of USA, Joe Biden, ordered a full investigation by the Department of Transportation on Wednesday to find out the causes of the breakdown. According to the White House, there are no indications that it was caused by a cyberattack.
Wednesday’s was the first time since the attacks of September 11, 2001 that the country’s authorities prohibited domestic flight departures.
This air chaos has taken place only two weeks after the winter storm Elliot also caused the cancellation of thousands of flights at the gates of Christmas.
Source: EFE
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