The FAA grounded all U.S. flights the morning of Jan. 11, causing more than 5,000 flights to be delayed. By 9 a.m., flights were beginning to return to normal operations. The White House said there was no evidence of a cyberattack.
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00:00After a nationwide safety system failure, the Federal Aviation Administration, or FAA,
00:05grounded all domestic flights on Wednesday morning.
00:09The system, noticed to air missions, alerts pilots about upcoming conditions that could
00:13affect flight safety and operates separately from air traffic control.
00:18The alerts include information like lights being out on the runway, an airshow taking
00:22place nearby, or safety tower lights being out.
00:26While it is a national system, past outages have typically only affected specific regions,
00:31not the entire country.
00:32Although flights usually take off and land without needing one of these notifications,
00:35it's still critical for safety that pilots receive these alerts, if there are any.
00:40The FAA lifted the grounding by 9am and said in a tweet, we continue to look into the cause
00:45of the initial problem.
00:46The White House Press Secretary, Karine Jumpier, said there was no evidence of a cyber attack
00:51at this point.