Worst flight delays on Thursday morning came in from Atlanta, Washington, and New York area. FAA grapples, again, with flight-plan computer glitch.
A computer problem at the Federal Aviation Administration caused flight cancellations and delays at U.S. airports Friday, but by mid-morning an FAA map Showed slowdowns Confined mainly to airports surrounding the cities of New York and Washington.
It is the second time in 15 months appeared that a glitch in the system that collects airline flight plans, causing delays.
"Systems that allow for the automated processing of flight plan information have been restored," Kathleen Bergen, an FAA spokeswoman in Atlanta, said by e-mail received by the Monitor at 10:30 am
She said the problem Showed up shortly after 5 am, "Which caused Thurs air traffic controllers have to manually input flight plans. Air Traffic Control radar coverage and communication with aircraft are not affected.
"We are investigating the cause of the outage," Ms.. Bergen said. "The FAA has contingency plans in place that allow the system Thurs operate safely when we experience problems such as this."
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