Passengers stranded at Denver airport told to 'sit tight' after FAA system outage

Record ID: 1706275

  • Title: Passengers stranded at Denver airport told to 'sit tight' after FAA system outage
  • Date: 11th January 2023
  • Summary: DENVER, COLORADO, UNITED STATES (JANUARY 11, 2023) (ORIGINALLY SHOT IN PORTRAIT) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) PASSENGER AT DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, CHRIS WICKLUND, SAYING: "Yeah, so I basically woke up this morning, like 4:30 (a.m. local time) because I slept in the airport. And I was like, okay, I'm ready for my 6 a.m. flight. And then I saw that FAA was ground-s
  • Embargoed: 25th January 2023 15:33
  • Keywords: Airport Delay Denver FAA Flight NOTAM US passenger
  • Location: DENVER, COLORADO, UNITED STATES
  • City: DENVER, COLORADO, UNITED STATES
  • Country: US
  • Topics: Air Accidents,Disaster/Accidents,North America
  • Reuters ID: LVA001185211012023RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Passengers were left waiting at Denver International Airport as flights were grounded and delayed due to a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) system outage on Wednesday (January 11).
    Chris Wicklund, who planned to come back to Minneapolis from Denver, said he found out the news from Twitter.
    "I basically woke up this morning, like 4:30 (a.m. local time) because I slept in the airport… And then I saw that FAA was ground-stopping all the flights”, Wicklund told Reuters while walking at the airport.
    He said people were tired, but the situation in the airport was quite calm.
    U.S. flights were slowly beginning to resume departures and a ground stop was lifted after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) scrambled to fix a system outage overnight that had forced a halt to all U.S. departing flights.
    The cause of the problem with a pilot-alerting system, which delayed thousands of flights in the United States, was unclear, but U.S. officials said they had so far found no evidence of a cyber attack.
    The outage occurred at a historically slow time for U.S. travel after the December holiday travel season, but airlines have said demand remains strong as travel continues to recover to near pre-pandemic levels.
    The FAA had earlier ordered airlines to pause all domestic departures after its pilot alerting system crashed and the agency had to perform a hard reset around 2 a.m., officials said.
    (Production: Thomas Holdstock, Milan Pavicic, Olga Vyshnevska)
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