US Flight Chaos Puts Harsh Spotlight on FAA After Tense Year
- Lawmakers, industry leaders criticize agency for breakdown
- Failure comes despite years of improved flight efficiency
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An overlooked software flaw is opening up US aviation authorities to new scrutiny over the resiliency of the systems that keep the nation’s planes moving.
Federal Aviation Administration officials were still working to determine what went wrong in an outage that prompted a nationwide flight halt, delaying more than 10,000 trips. The agency said late Wednesday that preliminary findings traced the cause to a “damaged database file” — confirming an earlier Bloomberg News report — and there’s no evidence of a cyberattack.