The head of the Federal Aviation Administration defended the safety of air travel as he answered questions about recent close calls between planes and the major outage of a critical safety system for pilots last month.
Acting FAA administrator, Billy Nolen, said Wednesday he has formed a team to review efforts to keep air travel safe. He says the FAA is putting in place changes to avoid another breakdown in a safety-alert system known as NOTAM or Notice-to-Air-Missions. That system failed last month and forced the FAA to issue a ground stop in place for all flights.The hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
On Wednesday, it was revealed that technicians tried to switch to backup databanks and they thought they had fixed the problem. Nolen revealed that some personnel accidentally deleted files while working to correct synchronization between the primary system and the backups. I get that you’re saying now ‘I’m going to back up on the human factor.’ Really, is what you’re saying ‘I’m going to back up on the human factor and make sure that this never happens?’ Because one individual being on the spot, but really, it’s the architecture of the system that doesn’t give us true redundancy. So, is there a way to solve that before we go two years into the modernization?: Yeah, we will continue on this journey of modernization.
Secondly, we’ve increased the level of oversight to ensure the more than one person is available when work or updates are being done on the live database, along with up-leveling our level of oversight within the command center to ensure that we’ve got leadership present.
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