Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

FAA officials say failed computers that delayed flights across the country are now working again. The air traffic controllers union says the computer failure involved both of the Federal Aviation Administration's computer centers in Salt Lake City and Atlanta. Even though the FAA said Thursday the problem had been solved, Doug Church, a spokesman for the National Air Traffic Controllers Union, said controllers were still entering flight plans manually into computers in some locations. The computers at the two centers, which handle flight plans for air traffic throughout the country, broke down early Thursday. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for ... Read Full Story

Air travelers nationwide scrambled to revise their travel plans Thursday after an FAA computer glitch caused widespread cancellations and delays for the second time in 15 months. The Federal Aviation Administration said the problem, which lasted about five hours, was fixed around 10 a.m., but it was unclear how long flights would continue to be affected. Doug Church, a spokesman for the National Air Traffic Controllers Union, said controllers were still entering flight plans manually in some locations. Aviation officials told The Associated Press that the problem began at the computer center in the Salt Lake City area. The officials asked not to be ... Read Full Story

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Friday, November 20, 2009 Contact: Quiet Rockland, 1-845-480-1088 FAA NADIN COMPUTER CRASH IS MISGUIDEDLY BLAMED ON PARTS NOT PEOPLE QRNewswire/Rockland County, NY: From Quiet Rockland Attorney John J. Tormey III, Esq.: “Regrettably but predictably, this week’s FAA recidivist inability to maintain its own flight-control equipment has already been mischaracterized by special interests seeking to further their own political agendas – including mischaracterization by New York Senator Charles Schumer. “The self-dealing touts would have you believe that the solution to FAA management incompetence is to throw US$35,000,000,000 more of YOUR dollars at the problem in the form of an ill-conceived 2009 ... Read Full Story

Federal officials say flights were delayed across the country when a piece of communications equipment in Salt Lake City failed. Federal Aviation Administration officials and an official for the union that represents the agency's technicians said Thursday the failure prevented air traffic control computers in different regions of the country from talking to each other. Two large computer centers in Salt Lake City and near Atlanta were affected, as well as 21 regional radar centers around the country. The problem began with the failure of a single circuit board inside a router, a piece of communications equipment that enables computers to network to each ... Read Full Story

The crowded airspace over the Hudson River, where nine people died in the collision of a small plane and a sightseeing helicopter, will be split into a low-altitude zone for local traffic and a higher one for longer-distance flights, the Federal Aviation Administration said Monday. The new rules provide structure to a Hudson River air corridor that some pilots had compared to the wild West, with helicopters loaded with commuters and sightseers cutting across the waterway as fixed-wing private planes travel down it on longer journeys. The changes, which follow recommendations in an FAA task force report compiled after the collision, are to take ... Read Full Story