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FAA Says Contractor Unintentionally Triggered
System Outage That Suspended Thousands
of Flights

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 1/20/2023 12:03:38 AM

The Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday that a contractor working with the agency accidentally triggered the system outage last week that suspended thousands of flights. The unnamed company unintentionally removed files in the Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system, which sends real-time information about potential hazards to pilots on their routes, the Wall Street Journal first reported. “The agency has so far found no evidence of a cyberattack or malicious intent,” the FAA told the publication. The agency has also reportedly fixed deficiencies in the system and adapted it to make it capable of withstanding such errors in the future.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Words have Meaning 1/20/2023 12:14:35 AM (No. 1382836)
You realize, I told them this might happen. Some contractor is going to trip over that cord and disconnect all the flights in the entire country. Plus, one outlet for the entire country sounds unsafe and it could blow a fuse, or worse.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: thefield 1/20/2023 12:24:43 AM (No. 1382837)
Our country at the mercy of one electrical cord.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: PChristopher 1/20/2023 12:28:07 AM (No. 1382839)
Ah, so they finally found someone to throw under the bus.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Ketchuplover 1/20/2023 1:10:15 AM (No. 1382847)
It took them a whole week to contrive this answer.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: EJKrausJr 1/20/2023 1:43:12 AM (No. 1382852)
The same contractor knocked out Canada's ATC as well? Don't believe a Butt Pete word. My guess is both the American and Canadian ATC systems were hacked and held for ransom. The ransom was paid in bitcoin just as TCT highlighted. Our Government lies.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: JonR 1/20/2023 2:25:17 AM (No. 1382857)
Frankly, I don’t believe a single word from any government official or agency! Liars one and all!
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Reply 7 - Posted by: liberalslovetaxes 1/20/2023 2:40:02 AM (No. 1382858)
So how many millions in bitcoin did the government pay to get the system up and running again?
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Reply 8 - Posted by: DCGIRL 1/20/2023 5:50:38 AM (No. 1382911)
So now they call hackers contractors.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: thekidsmom66 1/20/2023 6:46:53 AM (No. 1382937)
Covering Mayor Pete's incompetent backside.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Rich323 1/20/2023 6:55:31 AM (No. 1382945)
And TWA 800 was a fuel tank problem and Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone killing Kennedy and Covid 19 came from bat soup at the wet market….cmon sheeple do you believe anything from the US government these days?
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Reply 11 - Posted by: NancyD 1/20/2023 6:58:54 AM (No. 1382949)
If the Fed's say it happened, I guess it happened. Ya right.... What a joke. Are the Fed's really this incompetent? I'm not buying it
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Bur Oak 1/20/2023 7:28:20 AM (No. 1382966)
Amazing that the FAA doesn't back up files. I suspect as another said that there is only a mythical scapegoat contractor.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: RWPollock 1/20/2023 7:52:03 AM (No. 1382985)
Unlikely the real cause ….but none the less this contractor needs to be deeply investigated. It is very suspicious!
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Lonestar Jack 1/20/2023 8:35:52 AM (No. 1383036)
Who designed the backup procedure?
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Reply 15 - Posted by: stevendm 1/20/2023 8:54:33 AM (No. 1383050)
Bogus. Two different answers. A data file was both removed and damaged. I have found from raising kids that when there are multiple excuses, neither is the right one.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: mobyclik 1/20/2023 9:17:48 AM (No. 1383072)
Poster #6 took the words right off of my keyboard: ''Frankly, I don’t believe a single word from any government official or agency! Liars one and all!''
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Reply 17 - Posted by: hope27 1/20/2023 12:45:27 PM (No. 1383313)
Jan 1 2023 Philippine Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) outage “The primary cause identified was a problem with the power supply and the degraded uninterrupted power supply, which had no link to the commercial power, and had to be connected to the other manually. The secondary problem was the power surge due to the power outage, which affected the equipment,” Canada and U.S. outages on the same day Jan 11th, US Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) Notice To Air Missions (NOTAM) system outage “Our preliminary work has traced the outage to a damaged database file. At this time, there is no evidence of a cyber attack,” the FAA said” Jan 11th, Canada's Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system outage Canada says that it believes its outage was the result of a computer hardware failure. Just like the FAA, NAV Canada explicitly stated that their issue was not the result of a cyberattack."
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Reply 18 - Posted by: DVC 1/20/2023 12:54:48 PM (No. 1383316)
I'll bet dollars against doughnuts that this was an affirmative action hire.
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