Contractors unintentionally deleted recordsdata, resulting in the NOTAM outage : International

Contractors unintentionally grounded hundreds of flights final week once they deleted recordsdata whereas engaged on the Discover to Air Missions (NOTAM) system, the Federal Aviation Administration says.

The company stated in a press release Thursday {that a} preliminary evaluation discovered the shutdown occurred because the contractors labored to “right synchronization between the stay main database and a backup database.” Investigators thus far discovered no proof of malicious intent or a cyberattack.

NOTAM is utilized by the FAA to inform pilots and airports of any potential flight hazards.

The FAA says it has taken steps to make the system “extra resilient,” although the assertion didn’t specify these measures.