USA: „Kommunikationsproblem“ – Landesweites Startverbot in den USA nach vier Stunden aufgehoben
Während sich das Chaos an den US-Flughäfen langsam auflöst, geht die Suche nach der Ursache der Störung weiter. Der massive Ausfall kommt nur wenige Tage nach Einführung eines neuen KI-Systems.
The nationwide ban on flights across the United States was lifted after about four hours. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had halted all air traffic nationwide on Friday evening. Flights had not been granted permission to take off "until further notice." Incoming international flights were being individually reviewed.
The agency cited "extraordinary circumstances" and safety reasons as the reasons. The FAA did not immediately provide further details. During a press conference at the White House, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said that an outdated flight safety system and routers overloaded with data were responsible for the outage.
Both the Secretary and the FAA had previously referred to a communication problem on the X social media platform that affected flight centers. FAA technicians would be investigating the problem. As a result of the disruption, no planes from Europe were allowed to take off towards the U.S. The European air safety authority Eurocontrol reported this in the early hours of the morning.
Flight-tracking service Flight-Radar showed only relatively few activities in U.S. airspace just three hours after the flight stoppage began, but also that many planes were able to resume routes over the Atlantic from the U.S. East Coast.
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