FAA Reveals Alleged Cause of Nationwide System Going Down, Causing All Flights to Be Grounded

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) revealed what caused a key system to go down, triggering nationwide chaos at airports after all flights were grounded on Wednesday.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg indicated that no malign actors caused the system to go down but he told news outlets that officials cannot rule it out.  However, the FAA issued a statement later Wednesday indicated that it was an internal system error.
“The FAA is continuing a thorough review to determine the root cause of the Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system outage,” the FAA said in a statement on Wednesday night. “Our preliminary work has traced the outage to a damaged database file.” It did not disclose why the database file was damaged….