The Federal Aviation Administration issued an advisory at 4:18 am Eastern Time, saying the Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system had failed. All flight departures were temporarily halted. By 9 am, flights were slowly getting back on track, the agency said later this morning.
“Normal air traffic operations are resuming gradually across the United States following an overnight outage to the FAA’s Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system that provides safety information to flight crews. The ground stop has been lifted. The agency continues to look into the cause of the initial problem.”
This was the first time all domestic flights were grounded since Sept. 11, 2001, after the terrorist attack on the United States. Critics are laying the blame at the feet of Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg.
“Biden’s FAA set ‘racial equity,’ ‘inclusion,’ and ‘environmental justice’ as its top priorities. Now, it can’t keep our planes in the air. Wokeness is always a weapon for making everyone’s lives worse,” wrote conservative Charlie Kirk, referencing the FAA’s new top priorities, which are inclusiveness.
