FAA Says Unintentionally Deleted Files Caused Flight Chaos Earlier in Month

Conservative News DailyJanuary 20, 2023

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), in red, admitted its staff Thursday “unintentionally deleted files” Key computer system caused the January 11 commercial airline ground-stop, which resulted in more than 11,000 flights being canceled and created chaos for travelers.

Reuters reports The FAA stated that the human error occurred when personnel were working. “to correct synchronisation between the live primary database and a backup database”It was “so far found no evidence of a cyber attack or malicious intent.”

The system outage happened on January 10th, but the ground stop was not issued until morning the next day. By then many domestic flights had been grounded or diverted, and thousands more were beginning to realize the chaos ahead.

A mass system failure caused the suspension of commercial flights across the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), said that they experienced a computer problem and were working to resolve it. https://t.co/ttGygdnC0I

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) January 11, 2023

This outage was the first U.S. national grounding of flights departing after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

Last week, 120 Congressmen gathered to discuss the issue. demanded Questions about the system fiasco from Pete Buttigieg (Transport Secretary) and the FAA

Sam Graves, a Republican hailing from Missouri, was the chairman of the House Transportation Committee. “completely unacceptable.”

File/Some 120 Congressmen demand answers from Pete Buttigieg (Transport Secretary) and the FAA regarding the flight system failure earlier in the month. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci).

They are asking Buttigieg to and other officials to explain the cause of the computer malfunction and the steps taken to prevent it happening again.

Billy Nolen, FAA acting administrator, plans to host a virtual briefing Friday with lawmakers and staff looking for details on what went wrong.