Posted on 01/12/2023 9:09:48 PM PST by SeekAndFind
After all flights in the U.S. were grounded early Wednesday morning over a system failure, the Federal Aviation Administration said it traced the issue back to a “damaged database file.”
“The FAA is continuing a thorough review to determine the root cause of the Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system outage,” the FAA said in a statement Wednesday night. “Our preliminary work has traced the outage to a damaged database file.”
The Notice to Air Missions system provides safety information to flight crews.
“At this time, there is no evidence of a cyber attack,” the statement continued. “The FAA is working diligently to further pinpoint the causes of this issue and take all needed steps to prevent this kind of disruption from happening again.”
We are working diligently to further pinpoint the causes of this issue and take all needed steps to prevent this kind of disruption from happening again. (2/2)— The FAA ✈️ (@FAANews) January 11, 2023
Embattled Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the review will continue.
At my direction, FAA is continuing its system review. Preliminary work has traced the issue to a damaged database file, with no evidence of a cyber attack.
FAA will continue its work to further pinpoint the sources of this issue and steps to prevent it from occurring again.— Secretary Pete Buttigieg (@SecretaryPete) January 11, 2023
Lawmakers blasted Buttigieg after the grounding, which was the latest incident in a string of transportation disasters to happen under his leadership.
This is completely unacceptable. Secretary Buttigieg has been focused more on "racist roads" than on making sure our transportation is reliable.
Which is, you know, his job.
He has failed every major test as Transportation Secretary. https://t.co/npT7zwkb9Z— Rep. Dan Bishop (@RepDanBishop) January 11, 2023
Pete Buttigieg couldn't organize a one-car funeral.
He was never remotely qualified for this role.— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) January 11, 2023
Making acronyms more “inclusive” by renaming the NOTAM system from “Notice to Airmen” to “Notice to Air Missions.” I wish I was joking.
Wokeism is a disease. Next time, try doing your job, Pete.— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) January 12, 2023
The American people deserve answers on why domestic flights were grounded NATIONWIDE in light of the FAA’s recent technological issues. We’ve faced one transportation crisis after another under Transportation Secretary Buttigieg's failed leadership. https://t.co/f8FPiByFUZ— Congresswoman Debbie Lesko (@RepDLesko) January 11, 2023
They’re supposed to immediately the first half hour say “There is no connection to terrorism” and then “we have no idea yet what happened and are now reaching out to the public for any sort of clues you may give us.”
To now say “no terrorism” shows it up as phony——which it is.
C’mon man! Pete Buttigieg is too busy chestfeeding his captive infant/victim to waste time on transportation!
Watching porn on the company computers will do that to you.
NOTAMs? It is not very complicated to maintain a dB of flight hazards and notices to airmen.
Not like it is tracking on radar and coordinating flights is it?
It is if the last person who actually understood how the database works retired a dozen years ago and you've been getting away with just avoiding doing anything that would upset the old girl for that long.
These types of systems are everywhere and run a lot of the systems that keep society going (social security, medical insurance, banking, drivers licenses, etc...). Being old isn't bad, ones and zeros don't get moldy, but the forty to fifty years of spaghetti code, workarounds and exception handling routines for things that were once rare one off events... those things have made the systems nearly impossible to maintain, and totally impossible to maintain well.
During the beginning of Covid in CT they were begging retired people to come back and anyone with COBOL experience in large systems to help as the unemployment system with it’s decades of modifications and alterations was unable to handle the influx of applicants and the temporary Covid related changes.
That doesn’t really answer the question. If it was a damaged database file, the real question is how did it get damaged.
Not a programmer but I have bought a few and had people manage them. Hands off, not broke, don’t fix works best. When people start appending, patching, “improving” things go wrong. What is worse are patches with cascading knock on effects and unintended consequences.
Just a dB system announcing conditions of runways and such. Not rocket science really.
Ah yes, the old computer glitch meme. When all else fails, blame the computer.
Wokeism is a disease. Next time, try doing your job, Pete.— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) January 12, 2023
When eyepatch McCain holds a valid level of moral condemnation over your job performance.... Yikes Pete. Maybe less time felating and more working.
Yeh, sure! 🙄
Buttplug was using the system to watch gay porn and caught a virus
Reminds me of the Gateway computer salesman trying to tell me my computer was delayed due to a “kernel problem.”
“I know what a kernel is. Do you? I’m pretty sure that’s not what’s holding it up.”
Busted.
I don’t have to be a pilot to know they’re flat out lying, but I am and they are.
Since when does the FAA mess with software during peak traffic hours? Software is changed at night to avoid disruption to traffic unless it completely fails. Why would they have 52 air refueling tankers and fighter jets ready to take to the air at the same time? Something else is going on that they aren’t talking about.
I'm guessing it's extremely difficult to do any job well while a blunt object is being repeatedly rammed up one's butt.
“During the beginning of Covid in CT they were begging retired people to come back and anyone with COBOL experience in large systems to help as the unemployment system with it’s decades of modifications and alterations was unable to handle the influx of applicants and the temporary Covid related changes.
Fortran (Notam system) and COBAL coders are probably Indian. They provide the bulk of legacy software expertise, since the early 2000’s.
I wonder who is currently under contract to provide system management for this ungainly behemoth of a Notam/Fortran system?
Just a test to see if the federal government can lock down all air travel with the flick of a switch on a computer.
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