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a full investigation has been protest. heidi joe castro al jazeera washington now just 2 weeks ago, a different critical control system broke down in florida causing delays. while failure of such technologies rare, it's not the 1st session student in recent years. a year ago this month, the f a, a briefly grounded flight in the west from us and hawaii. north korea had fired a miss. i'm around the same time in 2018 a system fault in europe. say a traffic control system led to more than 15000 flights being delayed in 2014 computers at the los angeles airport crashed 20 you to spy plane flew overhead. the system ran out of memory as it struggled to process the planes flight path and old for that year, an air traffic control computer glitch lead to flight delays and cancellations across the u. k. ah, well let's bring in our guests for today's show in new jersey, kyle bailey, a former federal aviation administration safety team representative and also a pilot in washington, d. c. jody west be chief executive at global cyber risk. and in london, alex ma cherice and aviation analysts a very

at the federal aviation administration, heidi joe castro has more from arlington virginia. this was in a system that is critical for safety breathings the most up to date information on flight paths and runway conditions, et cetera that pilots look at right before they take off. and for some reason that is still been investigated, that system failed overnight at now. apparently it has been brought back online, but these repercussions were still seeing. and all at least 21 people have been killed in a suicide explosion in the afghan capital. kabul nearly foreign ministry office. the bloss reportedly happened when the chinese delegation was meeting the taliban at the foreign ministry lease in germany or evicting climate activists from a village to allow the expansion of an open pit. coal mine a course has rejected the protest. this request to stay rebels in ethiopia, northern to gray region, begun hand again their heavy weapons to the federal army. as part of a peace deal signed in south africa more than 2 months ago to ends. the 2 year conflict. early results from beneath th

but let's go to heidi joe castro, who's in arlington, virginia at ronald reagan. there airports, heidi, what sort of implications had this had on travelers there? one, even it was fear that this would create a domino effect of flight cancellations, and delays. and unfortunately that seems to be proven true in the last hour, according to flight aware. another 1000 flights have been delayed across united states. another 100 or so have been cancelled here in this medium sized, a ronald reagan national airport outside of washington were seen about one in 3 flights having delayed some 53 flights have been cancelled thus far. which potentially could have been much worse given that just a couple hours ago, there was a complete round stop on all flights domestic within the united states. due to that apparent computer glitch that we've been learning about from the federal aviation administration. this was in a system that is critical or safety briefings the most up to date information on flight paths and runway conditions, et cetera that pilots look at right before they ta

we have nadine bob, but 1st we go to heidi joe castro, who's at reagan airport in virginia. heidi i'm the americans of course, are waking up to all sorts of news, all problems and challenges with travel. what are you seeing there in terms of people's experiences? will need the one good thing about this isn't we are in the middle of the week and it is a very light travel day. and i saw many worry travelers here at ronald reagan airport, just outside of washington, who were worried that they wouldn't be able to get out of here at all. but it turns out currently the delay here is between one to 2 hours on average. so a lot of relieved faces, though it is still perhaps too early to tell, given that there are some 21000 flight scheduled to come in and out of us airports today. and we're only about an hour into this resumption of normal traffic patterns . but plains are moving behind me on the turmack. they were still overnight and in the morning hours. but we're seeing some movement now. we're certainly seeing relieved travelers and also some worry about why this happened, which is still a

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all right, well let's go to heidi joe castro, who's that reagan airport in arlington, arlington virginia heidi oversee this caused a major back logo of flights. a huge amount of disruption is much of that being seen where you are leave is certainly is, and the numbers of delays and cancellations continue to grow. by the minute we're now more than 7500 flights delayed. well, over 1000 counselled across the united states, all of this apparently caused by a computer glitch. we're still waiting for a full explanation, but we know that the f a a's system that alerts pilots just before they take off about any pressing safety issues like runway conditions or anything obstructing the flight path, et cetera. that system went down over night. we still don't know why it went down, but were told by the white house that there is no indication of this be a cyber attack. and as you said, president biden has bowed a full investigation and were expecting a press conference perhaps with some answers. finally, in the coming hour, but that doesn't help. of course, the thousands of people who are stranded at

first, heidi joe castro from washington. >> it was a sight not seen since 9/11.ands of planes grounded at all u.s. airports due to a nationwide stoppage by the faa. >> no. nothing like this since 9/11, obviously. everything stopping because of a system. they should punch control of the leak. >> a computer failure was to blame. specifically, the notice to aeration system suffered a temporary outage. without it, flight crews could not access the latest safety alerts about flood conditions and runways. >> we still consider this to be a vital safety system because it moves messages that pilots need on anything from the taxiway or runway being out, to an issue with the navigation beacon, or military or space operations in a certain sector. >> the outage did not impact flights in the air. it lasted about one hour and a half into the faa said the problem was fixed. the cause of the outage remains unclear. >> no direct indication of any external or nefarious activity, but we are not prepared to rule it out. >> president biden order an investigation. the white house says