The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM), made headlines early on Jan. 11 when the system went down, causing a nationwide grounding of flights in the United States.
The NOTAM system provides pilots and other aviation professionals with information about potential hazards or disruptions to flight operations. NOTAMs are used to communicate information about things like closed runways, airspace restrictions, and out-of-service navigation aids.
The early morning malfunction of NOTAMs caused an interruption in the service that offers real-time reports to pilots and others in the flight industry.
This prompted a nationwide ground stop to all flights in the morning hours of Jan. 11, which lasted about an hour-and-a-half before the FAA announced it was resuming flights at 8:50 a.m. (ET)….