The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAAfor its acronym in English) gave the green light on Wednesday to the departures of domestic flights that it had previously ordered to be suspended due to a computer problem.
In a message on Twitter, the FAA indicated that "normal air traffic operations are gradually resuming in USA after a night failure Air Mission Notification System providing safety information to flight crews".
Despite this announcement, the number of delays has increased and, according to the flight tracker “flightaware“, have now 4,013 delayed flights in the country.
Early this morning, the FAA had notified its order that all domestic flight departures be postponed in USA until 9 o’clock in the morning Eastern time of the country due to a failure in the Notification of Area Missions.
Said system is a procedure that provides essential information for the personnel related to the flight operations and warns in real time about an abnormal state in the US aerospace system.
The president of USA, Joe Bidenwas informed by the secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigiegof the failure in the airspace control system, reported the spokeswoman for the White House, Karine Jean-Pierrein a tweet.
"There is no evidence of a cyberattack at this time"indicated Jean Pierrewho added that Biden has ordered a full investigation to find out the causes.
USA had suffered a situation of aerial chaos two weeks ago, although then it was due to the passage of the winter storm elliottwhich caused thousands of flight cancellations.
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