President Biden has instructed the Department of Transportation to 'conduct a full investigation into the causes' of flight delays across the U.S. after a key FAA computer system failed.
ordered a pause on all domestic flight departures until at least 9 a.m. ET as it worked to restore an outage of
its Notice to Air Missions System, which sends notifications to pilots about flight restrictions, hazards and broken equipment.President Biden told reporters on Wednesday morning that he had spoken with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg about the outage and asked that he "report directly to me when they find out" the cause.
"Aircraft can still land safely, just not take off right now. They don't know what the cause of it is, they expect in a couple of hours they'll have a good sense of what caused it and will respond at that time," Biden said.Wednesday that there was "no evidence of a cyberattack at this point." The ground stop would allow the FAA "to validate the integrity of flight and safety information," it said.
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