Letters
Letter to DOT Seeking Answers about FAA's NOTAM System Meltdown
Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO), the Committee’s Ranking Member Rick Larsen (D-WA), and 120 other Members of Congress wrote Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg seeking answers about the recent meltdown of the FAA's Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system -- a key aviation safety notification system.
The Members asked the Secretary to provide a briefing to Members and detailed responses to a number of questions about the causes of the system failure, the FAA’s response to the problem, the level of resiliency and redundancy built into the NOTAM system, the age of the system’s software and hardware, any recent or planned FAA updates to the system, impacts of the flight delays and cancellations on passengers, and more. Read the full letter here. |