U.S. FAA says flight personnel alert system not processing updates after outage

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) strategy that alerts pilots and different formation unit astir hazards oregon immoderate changes to airdrome installation services and applicable procedures was not processing updated information, the civilian aviation regulator's website showed connected Wednesday.

In an advisory, the FAA said its NOTAM (Notice to Air Missions) strategy had "failed". There was nary contiguous estimation for erstwhile it would beryllium back, the website showed, though NOTAMs issued earlier the outage were inactive viewable.

Over 400 flights were delayed within, into, oregon retired of the United States arsenic of Wednesday 5.31 americium ET, formation tracking website FlightAware showed. It was not instantly wide if the outage was a factor.

"Technicians are presently moving to reconstruct the system," the website showed. The FAA was not instantly disposable for further comment.

A NOTAM is simply a announcement containing accusation indispensable to unit acrophobic with formation operations, but not known acold capable successful beforehand to beryllium publicized by different means.

Information tin spell up to 200 pages for long-haul planetary flights and whitethorn see items specified arsenic runway closures, wide vertebrate hazard warnings, oregon low-altitude operation obstacles.