US flights grounded because engineer accidentally 'replaced one file with another': Official
The FAA is monitoring its systems at 'high level' after its NOTAM failure grounded all planes, a senior official told ABC News. With the Federal Aviation Administration's Notice To all Air Missions, or NOTAM, system back up and running, staffing remains high and systems monitoring is at an urgently high level this morning, a senior official told ABC News Thursday. MORE: Software maintenance mistake at center of major FAA computer meltdown: Official Computer traffic on the NOTAM system is at super-high levels as airlines, pilots and airports start the day with normal flight operations while also trying to make up for delays and cancellations yesterday. At the same time, public and media computer traffic on the NOTAM system is running high because of global interest in the antiquated system that crashed on Wednesday. The ground stop order that paused all airplane domestic departures and the FAA systems failures Wednesday morning appear to have been the result of a mistake...