The NOTAM system broke down late Tuesday and was not fixed until midmorning Wednesday, leading to more than 1,200 flight cancellations and more than 8,500 delays by early afternoon on the East Coast, according to flight-tracking website FlightAware.
Even after the Federal Aviation Administration lifted the order grounding planes, the chaos was expected to linger. More than 21,000 flights were scheduled to take off Wednesday in the U.S., mostly domestic trips, and about 1,840 international flights expected to fly to the U.S., according to aviation data firm Cirium.
"I’ve been flying 53 years. I’ve never heard the system go down like this," Cox said. "So something unusual happened." With the NOTAM system down, none of that crucial, up-to-date information is available for pilots and airports to make flight plans, hence the grounding. "The FAA has failed in technology," he said. "The FAA is one federal agency that's known to be the slowest in putting out technology."
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