The Federal Aviation Administration said on Sunday morning that its main system for sending real -time security alerts to the pilots was operational again after being broken for several hours.
“The Notam system is online and operational,” the FAA said in a statement, referring to the notification system. “There was no operational impact in the national airspace system.”
According to the FAA, the system was back online by 11 a.m. on Sunday. Despite the warnings that the failure could lead to theft delays, there does not seem to be any major disruptions for American plane trips.
NOTAM, STENOGRAPHY FOR “Missions of notice to airbooks”, refers to the alert system that the FAA uses to share information on the dangers in air or on the ground with airlines, such as closed tracks, Airspace restrictions and navigation signal disturbances.
The FAA and the Secretary of Transport, Sean Duffy, said late Saturday that the alert system knew a “temporary breakdown”. At the time, the agency said it was using an emergency program to send security alerts.
The agency said it was investigating the cause of the failure.
The FAA was modernizing the Notam system, which has already dropped.
In January 2023, similar failure led to thousands of flight delays, traveling training through American airspace. The breakdown would later be attributed to human error, after thousands of files were wrongly deleted from the system by entrepreneurs.
The National Airpace System in the United States covers an area of more than 29 million square miles, and the FAA provides air service to more than 45,000 flights per day in this area, according to the agency.
Ali Watkins Contributed reports.
