Canada’s air hazard notification system experiences brief disruption | 24CA News

The laptop system that alerts airways and pilots flying in Canadian airspace to potential hazards skilled a quick disruption on Wednesday.

The system, referred to as the Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system, is operated by Nav Canada, a personal non-profit that owns and operates Canada’s air site visitors management system.

Nav Canada mentioned it started experiencing issues with the NOTAM entry system on Wednesday morning that left it unable to ship new updates to airways.

No flights had been delayed in consequence, mentioned Nav Canada, and the system got here again on-line within the early afternoon.

“We continue to monitor our systems and investigate the cause,” the corporate tweeted.

Prolonged outage within the U.S.

Plenty of Canadian flights to and from the U.S. had been disrupted Tuesday and Wednesday as a result of a breakdown within the U.S. NOTAM system.

A pc outage that began Tuesday evening resulted in 1000’s of delays and tons of of flight cancellations rapidly cascading via the system at airports throughout the U.S.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration mentioned the reason for the outage will not be but clear. Nav Canada mentioned it does not imagine its personal outage is expounded to the one south of the border.