Flights resumed across the United States on Wednesday morning after they were temporarily grounded as a computer outage threatened to wreak havoc throughout the country’s airports.
The Federal Aviation Administration ordered domestic flights for most of the country’s airports grounded until 8 a.m. Hundreds — possibly thousands — of flights across the country are expected to be affected by delays or cancellations.
The FAA blamed the outage on an issue with its Notice to Air Mission — or NOTAM — system. The system is a crucial component of all civilian and military flights in the United States that alerts pilots to hazards or other issues they may experience during their departure, flight or arrival.
