More than 4,500 domestic flights were grounded on Wednesday due to an outage of the Federal Aviation Administration's technology used to send safety updates to pilots, writes The New York Times. The technology, called the Notice to Air Missions system, is instrumental in sharing information in the air and planning flights.
While the flights are up and running again, the cause of the outage is still unknown. There seems to be "no evidence of a cyberattack at this point," per White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, however, President Biden has called for an investigation by the Department of Transportation.
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