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FAA Blames Outage on Contracting Personnel Deleting Files

The outage that disrupted domestic air travel on the morning of January 11 reportedly began when “contract personnel unintentionally deleted files” while working to correct synchronization between a live primary database and a backup database for the FAA's Notice to Air Missions System.

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