‘HIGH’ TECH GROUNDED!

Washington: The Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday announced that its NOTAM (Notice to Air Missions) system — which alerts pilots and crew to advisories and information for flights — has been restoring, hours after it experienced a major technical glitch.

“Normal air traffic operations are resuming gradually across the U.S. following an overnight outage to the Notice to Air Missions system that provides safety info to flight crews. The ground stop has been lifted,” the agency tweeted.

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN DENIES CASE OF A CYBER ATTACK, DIRECTS DEPT TO PROBE
The White House denied it as a case of a cyberattack, but President Joe Biden directed Dept of Transportation to investigate the cause of the disruption. He said that he was briefed by Transportation Secy Pete Buttigieg, who told him they still had not identifi ed what went wrong.

MAJOR HAPPENINGS
 Grounding of all fl ights across US necessary to avoid any mishap, says expert
 Air Canada says transborder fl ights impacted by FAA outage
 Shares of US carriers fell in the Wednesday’s premarket trading. Southwest Airlines was down 2.4%, Delta Air Lines Inc, United Airlines, American Airlines were down about 1%
 The US aviation agency said that cause of the outage is not yet known
 Soon after the outage, fl ight personnel alert system not processing updates, alerted the FAA