The Federal Aviation Administration has allowed some flights to resume after an outage of the system that alerts pilots to any obstructions before take-off had earlier forced the civil aviation regulator to ground all aircraft in the United States.
The FAA ordered airlines to put a halt on all domestic departures until 9 a.m. Eastern time while it tested whether crews had managed to restore the system and bring it back online.
The system, which was changed to be called “Notices to Air Missions” in 2021, is meant to alert pilots to hazards, everything from snow, volcanic ash or birds near an airport.The NOTAMs sent by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration are part of a global safety system managed through the United Nations’ aviation agency.ADVERTISEMENTNOTAMs are written in a kind of encoded shorthand that had been originally designed to make communication more efficient.The U.N.
The notice of the closure of one of the two runways at the airport had been flagged in the pre-flight NOTAM – on page eight of a 27-page briefing – and missed by the pilots.
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