(CTN Information) – Earlier this week, United Airways briefly grounded its fleet throughout the nation, the airline and the Federal Aviation Administration introduced.
In an interview with Information, the FAA confirmed that the airline had requested the floor cease for security causes.
“We’re experiencing a system-wide technical problem and we’re holding all plane at their departure airports in consequence,” United Airways said in an announcement.
Within the meantime, flights which have already taken off are persevering with to their locations as deliberate. We’re at present investigating the matter and can present extra info as quickly because it turns into accessible.
In accordance with an announcement issued by the United Airways FAA on X, the web site that was previously Twitter, round 1:50 pm ET, the airline lifted the bottom cease for flights in america and Canada on the request of the FAA.
At concerning the identical time, the airline mentioned in an announcement that the bottom cease has now been lifted.
In a subsequent assertion, United Airways introduced that it had found an answer to the expertise problem, and flights have resumed. The airline is working with impacted prospects to make sure that they are in a position to attain their locations as quickly as attainable.
It’s not the primary time this yr that business United Airways in america have been grounded resulting from technological issues.
The Federal Aviation Administration skilled a pc outage in January, which resulted in a delay in departures for all U.S. flights for a number of hours.
It was reported on the time that the delays that affected 1000’s of flights was the results of a fault within the Discover to Air Missions system, or NOTAM, which gives pilots with the pertinent info they want when they’re in the air.
Earlier this yr, the FAA ordered a floor cease for the D.C. space airports due to issues with a communication system at a facility that controls air visitors in Virginia. As quickly as lower than an hour had handed since departures had been halted, the FAA introduced that flights to space airports had resumed.
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