The Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday that contractors working on a system that notifies pilots of potential hazards “unintentionally deleted files,” leading to a nationwide grounding of planes and thousands of delays last week.
The agency said it was continuing to investigate and had updated Congress on the latest findings as lawmakers demand answers about the cause of the outage.
The system started to fail on the afternoon of Jan. 10, and efforts to restore it faltered into the evening. In the early hours of Jan. 11, the agency decided to reset the system and order a nationwide halt to air travel — the first of its kind since 9/11. Air traffic soon began moving again, but delays continued throughout the day.Advertisement
“The agency is acting quickly to adopt any other lessons learned in our efforts to ensure the continuing robustness of the nation’s air traffic control system,” the FAA said.
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