Malfunction that grounded planes was probably due to corrupt file

The computer malfunction that grounded planes in the US for hours on Wednesday was not due to a cyber attack. That says the American aviation organization FAA. The failure was probably due to a ‘corrupt database file’, according to the organization.

FAA note

Other than being a corrupted file, the Federal Aviation Administration says nothing about the cause in his statement. “The FAA is continuing to investigate the cause of the notice to air missions failure. We are working hard to further pinpoint the causes of the problem and are taking all necessary steps to prevent it from happening again. happens.”

The malfunction was in the notam system, which provides flight crews and airline managers with up-to-the-minute information about a flight. This includes, for example, information about the departure or arrival airports, or about procedures and the weather on a route. The outage meant that planes in the US were not allowed to take off or land for hours on Wednesday.