“Some flights already had been canceled by early Thursday morning, an AirTran Airlines official told The Associated Press,” FOXNews.com reports. “The technical difficulties weren’t affecting air traffic control’s systems, according to Bergen.”
FOXNews.com reports, “Controllers ‘have radio coverage and communications with planes,’ she said.”
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Ben Mutzabaugh blogs for USA Today, “CNN reports the FAA computer system affected by the malfunction is centered in Atlanta. ‘The system — the National Airspace Data Interchange Network, or NADIN — appears to be the same one that failed in August 2008. The FAA said flight plans are being processed through the network’s Salt Lake City, Utah office,’ CNN says on its website.”
“CBS Newsreporter Nancy Cordes has more on the subject via the CBS News website. CBS explains the NADIN ‘system is located in Atlanta and generates the flight plans for all flights on the East Coast,'” Mutzabaugh reports. “She says the glitch is forcing air traffic controllers in the already-congested New York City to space out planes by about 20 miles, instead of the normal eight miles.”
Mutzabaugh reports, “CBS adds ‘the practical ramifications of this problem are that the entire air traffic control system on the East Coast is slowed to about 40-50% of what a normal day would look like. Controllers must input flight data for each takeoff and landing manually.'”
Full article here.
The FAA’s flight tracker is here.
MacDailyNews Note: This is a developing story and we’ll add more info to this article as soon as we have it.
