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FAA Problems Impact South Fla. Airports

MIA, FLL Experience Flight Delays

POSTED: Thursday, November 19, 2009
UPDATED: 6:36 pm EST November 19, 2009

Planes At Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport
MIAMI -- The Federal Aviation Administration problem that caused thousands of flight delays and hundreds of cancellations at airports nationwide also is affecting South Florida.

The problem, which has since been fixed, has been traced to an FAA computer failure in Atlanta. The system is the one pilots use to file flight plans.

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Kathleen Bergen of the FAA said they had to enter all flight information manually. The glitch did not affect radar equipment or communication with airplanes, the FAA said.

The FAA said there was no indication that a cyber attack was to blame.

In South Florida, takeoffs and landings continued at both Miami International Airport and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

Some travelers at Miami International Airport were experiencing delays of up 15 minutes, along with a handful of cancellations.

"It's a chain reaction," said Greg Chin, spokesman for Miami International Airport. "Travelers should call their airline ahead of time to learn of possible changes to their flight."

Chin told Local 10's Terrell Forney that the problem had not yet had a great impact on operations at MIA because of the abundance of international flights. The computer glitch appeared to be affecting mostly domestic flights.

At Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, inbound delays reached 90 minutes. In some cases, outbound flight delays topped three hours. All day, an unusually long line of airplanes could be seen on the runway waiting for the clearance to take off.

Travelers with flights scheduled out of either MIA or FLL are encouraged to contact their airline before going to the airport.

The Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta appeared to be hardest hit by the problem. Delays ran several hours long. Complicating the problem was bad weather in the Northeast, adding another two hours for travelers coming from places like New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.

Aviation officials said it took most of the day for the ripple effect of the delays to work their ways through the system.

The FAA said it was investigating the outage.

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