1st at noon new details after a system
outage halted all domestic flight
departures in the US this morning,
the Federal Aviation Administration has
now lifted an order to ground all flights.
But still thousands of Flyers
are dealing with ongoing delays.
Want to take you now to a live look at
Atlanta's Hartsfield Jackson International
Airport and LAX in Los Angeles.
They're on the right coast to coast.
We've seen more than 14,000 delays today,
and they are.
Still climbing by the minute.
More than 24,000 flights have been canceled.
We have team coverage for you
from Atlanta airport.
Let's lead things off with 11 lives.
Bobeth, Yates Bobeth flights are
trying to get back on track,
but digging out a pretty deep
hole of delays and cancellations.
A huge hole of delays and you
security lines here are very short,
so you can't tell.
But there are thousands of passengers
that are still in limbo here at
Hartsfield Jackson as the FAA's noticed
the air mission system went down.
Now we're told that particular system
distributes essential information
to personnel about things like
closed runways and runway hazards
at airports across the country.
And the outage caused more
than 6000 delays across the US.
Including here, it's Hartsfield,
and the cause of the outage is still unclear,
but the FBI says there is no
evidence of a cyber attack.
The outage frustrating, though,
to passengers who are well
aware of the recent problems at
airports over the past few weeks.
I was worried
I was gonna keep going after everything
that happened over the holidays with
delays and delays and then cancellations,
and I'm flying solo with my one year old,
so being stuck in an airport sounds
terrifying, but I'm keeping my fingers
crossed that Delta's got it together.
Now, the President has requested
that the FAA, their Department of
Transportation do a full investigation
as to what caused this outage,
sending it back to you guys in the studio.
OK, good to know they've
ruled out cyber attack.
Beau Beth, let's check in now
with Karis belger carriers.
Always a challenge when the
dominoes fall in one city,
let alone every airport in the country.
You've been talking to more
passengers dealing with it.
I have and in fact just before we came
on air to go look at FlightAware.
There are almost 700 delayed flights
just here at the Atlanta airport and
the length of those delays ranges.
One woman told me her flights
delayed an hour.
A couple told me their flight has
been delayed by 4 hours and I want
you to take a look at some of this
video we shot earlier this morning.
We're at one of the busiest
airports in the country.
This morning,
not a single plane was moving on the tarmac.
People only finding out about the
delays and the glitch when they
arrived to check in for their flights.
The FAA initially didn't think they'd be
able to resume departures until 9:00 AM,
but Atlanta was one of the
few airports moving again.
Even before that,
around 8:15 this morning,
because the air traffic backup
had gotten so bad.
I spoke with one woman who's
headed to California.
She told me she had a 9:00 AM flight
and was worried the delay would
cause her to miss her connection.
I'm flying with Spirit Airlines and
they told me basically that the flights
are at a standstill right now and
they're just saying that hopefully
they'll be back and running again,
but they don't know for sure when
it's going to be back running again.
And I've heard a range of
things from customers.
Some of them are confused,
some of them are frustrated.
But overall, they're concerned
because a lot of them still remember
those mass flight cancellations
that happened over the holidays.
They're hoping the delays they're
seeing now won't translate
into cancellations later
on. No doubt understandable that they'd
be thinking back to just a few weeks ago.
Karis, thank you.
We are going to continue to follow
delays and cancellations for you as
they're changing throughout the day.
You can always find the latest
developments online at 11 alive. Com.