A preliminary report showed that a contractor “unintentionally erased files while working on synchronization between the primary and standby databases.”
The computer failure that forced the US civil aviation regulator (FAA) to temporarily suspend US domestic flights on January 11 was caused by a contractor mistakenly deleting files, the agency said on Thursday. FAA.
The agency had previously blamed the failure, which caused thousands of cancellations and delays on January 11, on a damaged database file.
No evidence of a cyberattack
The investigation is continuing, but the agency claims to have found no evidence linking the incident to a malicious act or a cyberattack.
On the other hand, the FAA is taking measures to ensure that the information system concerned, intended to warn the crew members of an aircraft in real time of potential dangers on the ground or in the sky, is “more resilient”.
The US Minister of Transport, Pete Buttigieg, said on January 11 that he had asked the FAA to determine the causes of the problem and to explain why the systems supposed to take over in the event of problems had not worked.
