"A preliminary FAA review of last week’s outage of the Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system determined that contract personnel unintentionally deleted files while working to correct synchronization between the live primary database and a backup database," the FAA said in a statement. "The FAA made the necessary repairs to the system and has taken steps to make the NOTAM system more resilient," the FAA added. MORE: What is the FAA's NOTAM computer system that led to widespread problems? The official compared the NOTAM system outage to the crisis that crippled Southwest Airlines over the winter holidays: antiquated software overdue for replacement inside a critical IT network. FAA says 'unintentionally deleted files' led to NOTAM system outage originally appeared on abcnews.go.com

Source: ABC News March 01, 2024 14:28 UTC