FAA orders airlines to pause departures after system outage

Hundreds of U.S. flights were delayed Wednesday greeting aft the Federal Aviation Administration suffered an outage of the strategy that sends messages to pilots.

The FAA said connected its website that home departures would beryllium paused until 9:30 a.m. ET. The bureau said it was moving to reconstruct the Notice to Air Missions System.

The White House said Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg had briefed President Joe Biden connected the outage. "There is nary grounds of a cyberattack astatine this point, but the President directed DOT to behaviour a afloat probe into the causes," White House property caput Karine Jean-Pierre said successful a tweet.

More than 2,500 U.S. flights were delayed connected Wednesday arsenic of conscionable earlier 8 a.m. ET, according to FlightAware.

"This exertion contented is causing important operational delays crossed the National Airspace System," said Airlines for America, an manufacture radical that represents large U.S. carriers, including Delta, American, United, Southwest and others.

Austin-Bergstrom International Airport successful Texas said successful a tweet that arriving and departing passengers should expect delays passim the day.

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