Hundreds of flights throughout the country have been delayed after a computer outage occurred at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Wednesday.
The FAA issued an advisory just after 4 a.m. Eastern Standard Time saying that technicians were working to address the problem. United Airlines tweeted that the issue was with the FAA’s Notice to Air Missions system, which sends out real-time flight hazards and restrictions to all commercial pilots.
The FAA said at 6:30 a.m. that it was performing its final validation checks and reloading the system.
The flight-tracking website FlightAware recorded that more than 1,200 flights within, into or out of the United States were delayed as of just past 7 a.m., but only about 100 flights had been canceled.
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