The nightmare continues in the airports of United States (USA).
The computer failure that paralyzed takeoffs throughout the country has forced the postponement of the meeting between the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SICT) of Mexico.
A vital meeting for Mexico
The meeting, which was organized for this January 12, had the objective of defining the action plan and showing Mexico’s progress in correcting the deficiencies of its air structure and; In this way, the country will recover category 1 of aviation safety.
On May 25, 2021, the FAA downgraded Mexico to category 2 of the International Aviation Safety Assessment Program (IASA).
At the beginning of last December, the head of the SICT, Jorge Nuño Lara, said that Mexico was advancing in the process to recover category 1 in aviation security and expects it to be in April 2023.
In addition, the official announced that on January 12 he would hold a meeting in Mexico with Billy Nolen, interim director of the FAA to evaluate the corrective action plan.
The FAA’s downgrade of Mexico’s aviation security profile to category 2 is an action that prevents Mexican airlines from adding new flights to the United States and limits the ability of companies to carry out operating agreements with each other. .
The first time local flights have been canceled since 9/11
This Wednesday, a computer failure left the Notification system for Air Missions (NOTAM), which alerts pilots and other flight personnel about possible dangers on the route or changes in services or procedures at airport facilities.
This is the first time since the attacks on the September 11, 2001 that the country’s authorities prohibit domestic flight departures.
Tammara Williams, a traveler from Charlotte, says, “I was told on the phone that it’s a 9/11 situation, involving a complete ground stop. And when they told me that, the memory came back to me, because I flew out the morning of 9/11. So my first thought was that I had to get to the airport as soon as possible.”
It’s not the first incident, and it couldn’t be the last.
According to flight tracker Flightaware, more than 1,300 flights were canceled and around 10,000 had been delayed.
This is the largest incident caused by a technological failure in the US air system. Tim Campbell, former senior vice president of air operations at American Airlines, says it doesn’t have to be the last, as other FAA technologies are getting old, too. “A lot of their systems are old mainframe systems that are generally reliable but outdated,” he said.
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