{"id":29495,"date":"2023-01-12T03:16:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T03:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=29495"},"modified":"2023-01-12T03:16:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T03:16:15","slug":"why-did-faa-ground-flights-across-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=29495","title":{"rendered":"Why did FAA ground flights across the US?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Grounding of domestic flights across the US on Wednesday was caused by a relatively obscure system called Notice to Air Missions (Notam), a vital air safety tool.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is separate from the air traffic control system and warns pilots about hazards along the route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The system flags everything from flocks of gulls in a flight path to lawnmowers operating near runways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pilots must <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/sites\/faa.gov\/files\/about\/initiatives\/notam\/what_is_a_notam\/Airports_NOTAM_primer_for_2021.pdf\">check the system prior to take-off<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The system went down Tuesday night, prompting the US agency responsible for air safety, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), to use a telephone hotline as a backup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But that was quickly overwhelmed as flight traffic picked up on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The FAA gave little specific detail about what caused the Notam outage, but the White House said there was no evidence of a cyberattack &#8220;at this point&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News: Grounding of domestic flights across the US on Wednesday was caused by a relatively obscure system called Notice to Air Missions (Notam), a vital air safety tool. It is separate from the air traffic control system and warns pilots about hazards along the route. The system flags everything from flocks of gulls in a flight path to lawnmowers operating near runways. Pilots must check the system prior to take-off. The system went down Tuesday night, prompting the US agency responsible for air safety, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), to use a telephone hotline as a backup. But that&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29497,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29495\/revisions\/29497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}