{"id":90252,"date":"2023-01-13T17:27:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T17:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mytravelleader.com\/?p=90252"},"modified":"2023-01-13T17:27:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T17:27:02","slug":"faa-system-outage-reportedly-caused-by-contractor-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mytravelleader.com\/transport\/faa-system-outage-reportedly-caused-by-contractor-error\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA system outage reportedly caused by contractor error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The failure of the FAA&#8217;s Notice to Air Mission system on Jan. 11, which forced the agency to implement its first ground halt since 9\/11, was most likely caused by one or two contract employees who had access to the system, NBC News has reported, citing unnamed government officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The contractors are believed to have edited a file in the system, though it&#8217;s not clear whether they did so intentionally or in error.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to NBC, DOT secretary Pete Buttigieg didn&#8217;t explicitly confirm the report, but he made no effort to question it either.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Related: American Airlines CEO comments on FAA technology<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;We need to make sure that there are enough safeguards built into the system that this level of disruption can&#8217;t happen because of an individual person&#8217;s decision, or action or mistake,&#8221; he said. Buttigieg said he has leaned on the FAA to address the quandary.<\/p>\n<p>He added that steps have been taken to make sure that the sequence of events that happened to disable the system could not happen again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NBC reported that the contractor or contractors responsible for the failure no longer have access to the system.\u00a0<br \/>The FAA is also upgrading it cybersecurity protocols.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The ground stoppage was over by 9 a.m. Eastern time Wednesday, but it led to more than 2,800 flight cancellations and more than 10,000 delays of flights to, from and within the U.S. that day.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelweekly.com\/Travel-News\/Airline-News\/Cause-of-FAA-system-outage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The failure of the FAA&#8217;s Notice to Air Mission system on Jan. 11, which forced the agency to implement its<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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