(August 26, 2008)--A communication problem at a facility that processes flight plans caused flight delays at airports across the country Tuesday.
The Federal Aviation Administration said the facility south of Atlanta, was having problems processing data, so all flight-plan information had to be processed through another facility in Salt
Lake City.
The FAA says it did not lost contact with any planes and said there was no danger for air travelers.
There was no immediate word on how many flights were affected.
The aviation computer problem causing the flight was similar to the outage reported by federal aviation officials less than a week ago.
The Federal Aviation Administration's Web site says the air traffic planning system suffered an outage on Thursday that delayed
the departure of at least 134 flights.
The outage in the NADIN, which is short for National Air Space Data
Interchange Network, occurred at the same Georgia facility where
computers went down on Tuesday, causing delays at some three dozen major airports.
The Georgia facility is one of two NADIN locations in the United
States. The other is in Salt Lake City.
When half the system is not functioning, air traffic controllers
have to load flight plans manually, which causes delays.
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