In January 2023, the failure of the NOTAM system disrupted more than 11,000 flights in the first nationwide U.S. ground stop since 2001.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said a “damaged database file” was likely to blame for a computer system outage that halted domestic departures on Wednesday morning and led to ...

Officials said a corrupt file was discovered in the backup system. A reboot of the system took longer than hoped for and ran into the morning rush, forcing a ground stop around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday.