Painful awakening for the air sector this Wednesday morning. All domestic flights in the United States have been suspended by the United States Aviation Administration (FAA). The cause: a failure affecting the information systems for pilots and crews. “The FAA has ordered airlines to halt all domestic departures until 9 a.m. EST (3 p.m. in France) to allow the agency to confirm the integrity of flight and safety information,” it said. -she.
The White House is already reassuring. According to Washington, there is “no sign” that the interruption of flights is linked to a cyberattack “at the moment”, the White House said. “The President has been kept informed by the Minister of Transportation of the failure affecting the FAA systems. There are no signs of a cyberattack at this time, but the President has asked the Department of Transportation to conduct a full investigation into the causes,” wrote on Twitter White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre.
In addition, the FAA has announced that it is in the process of restoring the fault. “The FAA continues to work to fully restore its Air Mission Information System following an outage,” the agency said in a statement, adding, “While some functions are beginning to back online, operations of the national air system remain limited. »