In the United States called the cause of the failure in the aircraft control system

According to preliminary data, the cause of the global failure in the notification system for US pilots (Notice to Air Missions, NOTAM) was a corrupted file in the database system. This was announced by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Twitter.

“Our preliminary work to determine the cause of the failure resulted in a corrupted database file. There is no evidence of a cyber attack at the moment, ”the message says.

The FAA also noted that further work to determine the exact cause of the failure will continue. They also promised to take all necessary measures to prevent similar situations in the future.

Jan 11 FAA reportedthat a technical failure has occurred in the operation of the pilot alert system, which provides information on flight safety. Because of this, domestic flights had to be temporarily suspended. Limitation acted until 17:00 Moscow time, later the department lifted the ban. As a result of the failure, more than 1300 flights were canceled, more than 9600 were delayed.

The White House said US President Joe Biden had directed the Department of Transportation to investigate the failure. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Twitter noted that so far the US authorities have no evidence of a cyber attack on NOTAM. Biden confirmed that the Ministry of Transport does not know the cause of the failure. The authorities hope to get an answer to this question within a few hours, the American leader added.

Later in Rosaviatsia reportedthat Russian air traffic controllers were assisting transit American flights. As a result, “transit flights were served that flew from the Middle East and Southeast Asia to the United States and Canada through the Anchorage control center and were in the air at the time of the system failure.”