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All flights have come to a standstill in the US on Wednesday due to a glitch in the NOTAM (Notice to Air Missions) system. According to New York Times reports, 1230 domestic and international flights have been delayed so far. 109 flights have been cancelled. These include domestic and international flights. This has been confirmed on the website of Civil Aviation. This is the first such incident in American history.
what the agency said
The Federal Aviation Agency issued an advisory. It said – NOTAM (Notice to Air Missions) system has ‘failed’. We cannot say when it will be fine. However, efforts are on to fix it soon.
about 400 flights are being operated late. These include domestic and overseas flight operations. According to American time, this technical fault came to light at 5.31 am. However, till now it is not clear what is the reason for this. It was said on the website of Aviation – The technical staff is busy in repairing the system.
According to Sky News – in all, 760 flights have been canceled or delayed so far. According to flight tracker FlightAware.com – 91 flights have been cancelled. FAA said in a new statement – This happened due to a technical fault in the computer system. Malfunction detected. Trying to restore flight operations soon.
Code language in NOTAM
According to skybrary.aero, the language of NOTAM is actually tricky. This is code language. This information is usually shared with pilots and crew members during the final briefing before takeoff.
Suppose, some flying activities are going on in some area, then its information is already given through NOTAM. For example air show, parachute jumping or gliding event. Their information is already known to the pilots and crew.
Apart from this, if any runway or taxi-way is closed. If there is a problem in the radio navigation system, military exercise is going on or there is any other problem near the airfield, then all the information is available through NOTAM.
Air system failed in America, all flights were stopped – https://t.co/pW7MJ3snfB pic.twitter.com/UvlAHAei10
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