After all flights in the U.S. were grounded early Wednesday morning over a system failure, the Federal Aviation Administration said it traced the issue back to a “damaged database file.”
“The FAA is continuing a thorough review to determine the root cause of the Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system outage,” the FAA said in a statement Wednesday night. “Our preliminary work has traced the outage to a damaged database file.”
The Notice to Air Missions system provides safety information to flight crews.
“At this time, there is no evidence of a cyber attack,” the statement continued. “The FAA is working diligently to further pinpoint the causes of this issue and take all needed steps to prevent this kind of disruption from happening again.”
We are working diligently to further pinpoint the causes of this issue and take all needed steps to prevent this kind of disruption from happening again. (2/2)
— The FAA ✈️ (@FAANews) January 11, 2023
Embattled Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the review will continue.
At my direction, FAA is continuing its system review. Preliminary work has traced the issue to a damaged database file, with no evidence of a cyber attack.
FAA will continue its work to further pinpoint the sources of this issue and steps to prevent it from occurring again.
— Secretary Pete Buttigieg (@SecretaryPete) January 11, 2023
Lawmakers blasted Buttigieg after the grounding, which was the latest incident in a string of transportation disasters to happen under his leadership.
This is completely unacceptable. Secretary Buttigieg has been focused more on "racist roads" than on making sure our transportation is reliable.
Which is, you know, his job.
He has failed every major test as Transportation Secretary. https://t.co/npT7zwkb9Z
— Rep. Dan Bishop (@RepDanBishop) January 11, 2023
Pete Buttigieg couldn't organize a one-car funeral.
He was never remotely qualified for this role.
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) January 11, 2023
Making acronyms more “inclusive” by renaming the NOTAM system from “Notice to Airmen” to “Notice to Air Missions.” I wish I was joking.
Wokeism is a disease. Next time, try doing your job, Pete.
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) January 12, 2023
The American people deserve answers on why domestic flights were grounded NATIONWIDE in light of the FAA’s recent technological issues. We’ve faced one transportation crisis after another under Transportation Secretary Buttigieg's failed leadership. https://t.co/f8FPiByFUZ
— Congresswoman Debbie Lesko (@RepDLesko) January 11, 2023
Why bother to ask Peckerhead Pete He knows enough about the Transportation industry to buy a fucking bus ticket back to South Bend Why was he not rejected Because he ran for president Kamala Harris did the same So this is 2 of Biden’s political enemy Maybe no one other than these two The whole bunch that are on the Bidencapaided with our tax dollars Now playing nationwide while the vultures of the nwo wait They are going to have a long fucking wait if I have anything to say about I would love to shove it right Klaus Schwab’s ass Biden is going to be gone and if we still continue to get warmed over puke like we have now Don’t even think about because McCarthy likes the feel of that gavel Other countries look at us and remark that what is happening is that these morons knowledge and nothing is like Biden and gang are like elementary school to how it should be done as a Road Scholar These fucking worthless fucking vermin are nothing but liars cheaters and thieves Hey Mr speaker you need to fire that little lying Nadler too He was puking up lies by the dozen He should have been reprimanded for stopping GOP people during their speaking time They need to hold morning inspection and if they fail they have to keep their moronic mouths shut If they do not comply then there will be sent out picking up trash and when they are finished they can get into the bag
Normally you never even know who the transportation Secretary is because they’re doing their job and things are working. We’re only painfully aware of mayor Pete because he’s not doing his job.
It’s all in the wording. The clown squad is doing another ‘’review’’, INVESTIGATION is too much for corruption to allow for. But we now have ‘’garage gate’’. One crises after another should be giving people an idea of this failed administration due to the corruption it has embraced.
“…damaged data-base file…?” That is just plain BS. How did this get “damaged”? A human had to have done it. This was no less than intentional and if it was damaged during an upgrade or maintenance, it would have not succeeded under the simplest of integrity tests prior to going back on line. Total BS.