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They should have put a NOTAM out about the system failure

“Nobody reads those.” The Terms and Conditions of the aviation industry.

“I tried my best, I’m sorry.” Most polite JFK controller.

"Best rate of taxi" Just keep it below V1 and you're good! 😂

I love that Newark controller trying to help out the Alaska flight. “Hey, we’re getting word there’s a nationwide shutdown. You cleared for max taxi speed to get off the ground before I get specific orders to stop you. 😂”

That last statement: "Nobody reads NOTAMs". Gold.

Love jetblues comment at Newark 😂😂 “No one reads notams”

Poor Alaska 31. Seconds away from not being shut down for hours. Ouch...

I could only imagine the headaches flight attendants and customer service reps had to deal with. 😮

Aircraft Dispatcher here. The outage occurred sometime around 9pm EST or so Tuesday night. I had an hour left in my shift before heading home (and only 4 flights left that hadn't departed luckily). We were told to put alternate on all our flights and have the pilots confirm with tower runway was open and FICON was all good for them to land. I called all the towers they were going to just to confirm ahead of time for myself. But geez, I was so lucky it occured at the end of the day for me. I can't imagine the chaos if it started during the middle of my shift. (I also didn't work the following day, THANK GOD)

"After an engineer mistakenly replaced one file with another during a routine scheduled systems maintenance, the NOTAM system stopped processing updates" Maan that's a bad day for that dude.

Southwest: *sigh of relief*

Insane how a single outage can basically cripple an industry

"Alaska 299, are you guys ready to go? Like....now?" Lol that was a good one.

I really felt that disappointment from the Alaska 31 pilot.

You missed the part at JFK where one says “go home and have a good one” and tower replies “I’ll be here all day”

"Nobody reads NOTAMs". I thought that only applied to us flight simmers using OFPs generated by Simbrief. 😂😂

I was flying an A320 out of San Diego one morning. The ceiling was 400 feet which means that due to terrain to the east departing aircraft had to takeoff on 27 while arrivals had to land on 9. So that caused a bit of gridlock. Now 400 feet normally isn't an issue since an ILS approach usually goes down to 200 feet. But the NOTAMS had the normal 200 feet raised to 500 feet because of a temporary construction crane close to the airport. So everyone coming in on approach is going missed approach and diverting to their alternate. Then comes SouthWest Airlines. They break out and land. The copilot says "hey we broke out at 400 feet, no problem getting in" 😬 Among all the "yippi ki yeas" comments someone mentions the NOTAM. It got real quiet then. I would have liked to have been privy to the comments in that cockpit as they were taxiing in.

“Alaska 299 switching call signs to Navy AB201…”

You can hear it in the pilots voices, ‘now we have to tell the passengers!’ As they long for a shot of whiskey before making the announcement! Loved the ending.

Years ago I was flying to somewhere like Germany with another instructor. I said “Hey, did you get the NOTAMS?” He was like “Yep, I got the NOTAMS.” “Was anything useful in there?” “I said I got the NOTAMS I didn’t say I read the NOTAMS.” 😂

The "Yikes" at 8:03 .. felt that

IAD Ground is who I want in an emergency. That man is chill as hell

Wonder how many people had 9/11 flashbacks on hearing there's a nationwide stop...

Half an hour befor at the Command Center:"There's a pending Windows XP update on the Notam server. Shall I launch it? Yeah, sure, what can go wrong."

It took me an extra 5 hours to get home yesterday. I have 5 emails all with different takeoff times, ~1 hour later than the prior email. At the end of the flight, I overheard some of the crew talking about how they were originally 7 hours behind and ended up finishing the day only 5 hours behind. They all looked tired.

40 year gate agent here and I am SO glad I didn't follow my instructions to board. We left 3.5 hours later. Experience always wins.

Alaska 299 - you could hear the dejection in their voices!!!

I love the chill at JKF, and EWR everyone's just "welp...gonna be an interesting day!" but no tempers, no sniping, just a bit of friendly chatter and generally a lot of professionalism.

8:03 he says "Yikes", which is very different from "Thanks" lol

When Alaska 31 said “okaaaay, we’re standing by” I felt that

"Nobody reads Notams" XD

"Nobody reads NOTAMS" the best way to end the video 🤣🤣🤣🤦🏿

Gotta love the SNOWTAM system

imagine them trying to put a notam out about the failures

First JFK TWR guy couldn’t sound more New York if he’s started his announcement with “Listen up, ya buncha mooks…”

One day I was reading notams at my alternate, and all runways were closed there. I guess dispatch missed it and planned it on the release. Read your notams people.

"Sounds like it's going to be a fun morning!" Sums it up nicely

Alaska 31 was so close to getting off the ground.

That last one was good. Tower was like all right buddy step it up down the taxiway let's get you out of here I mean he really tried 😅

The poor ATC guys. They were probably more stressed having to deal with the outage than they are on their busiest day.

He said it! Nobody reads NOTAms the way the FAA issues them. Thankfully we have Foreflight to put the gobs of NOTAMs in their proper places and teanslate them into normal-speak

As a pilot who was flying outta NY yesterday - I completely agree with the Jet Blue guy at the end.

You did a good job of showing the chaos of yesterday January 11, 2023. I'm sure it was simular at all airports in the US.

Pretty embarrassing that this was allowed to happen in the first place, but also that the FAA failed to notice that there wasn't a single NOTAM update country-wide for FOUR HOURS before taking any action really says it all...

Yes, I got caught up in that mess. Wednesday, BNA to MIA, delayed for 2 hours, missed connection MIA to POP. Spent 8 hours in the rebooking line while on the phone at the same time, kept getting disconnected. Rebooking agent tells me VERY good chance on standby for Thursday. Turns out I was 11/11 on standby, three made it on the flight. Back to rebooking, told I could be on standby for Friday or a sure thing on Saturday. Since I was coming back on Sunday, I said screw it and booked a flight back to Nashville. Was on the plane told we had fuel pump problems, after an hour, had to deplane and go to another gate for another plane. Boarded, after 15 minutes, told there was an issue with a door latch, mechanic was working on it. 30 minutes later we took off. What a DISASTER!!!

The important NOTAMs could have been relayed verbally to pilots... Like actual important NOTAMS like presidential TFRs, airspace closures due to heavy military life fires or space rocket launches. Nobody gives a flying flip about the 20 individual taxiway lights out or the 50 foot tower, 200 feet left of the runway that has literally been there for the past 20 years... Like the guy at 8:12 said nobody reads NOTAMs.

Two things I never heard before... Proceed best rate of taxi and nobody NOTAMS 🤣

Delta 2191 lucky af

shoutout to the Newark guy trying to get the Alaska out.

I feel like this event is what this channels been waiting for 😂

Can you imagine the chaos at LAX! Yikes.

"Nobody reads NOTAMS"...😄- thank you very much for picking this up! Indeed a bad day for travelling.

I heard about this. Never dived into it as I don't fly often. But man, this is crazy.

I had a transatlantic flight that morning out of Newark at about 1am EST. I was heading home after visiting family for Christmas. Apparently we missed getting caught up in this by mere hours. We landed on the other side of the pond and the ground stop was all over the news. I don’t know if I’ve ever felt luckier.

Someone needs to put up the flight map and watch the skies clear up.

The "snowtam" system is what the text says at one point. To be fair, this was chilling news to a bunch of people.

“Nobody reads NOTAMS” 😂😂😂 I bet the DPE would love to hear that 😂😂😂

Definitely worth the listen! Thanks

Love the videos man!! Cant count how many hours I’ve spent on your channel. I believe 0:40 is all aircraft in the NAS (national airspace system)

You can tell the instant that the FAA lawyers got involved in the decision making process. Anyone pushed back and ready to go should have been allowed to fly. They have the information that is available to them at the time they begin their flight as mandated by the FARs . Anything that occurred enroute could have been handled by a case by case basis and disseminated directly to controllers via other methods. Yes, it would have resulted in additional workload, but would have been far preferable to what transpired. My unofficial opinion of someone who had to deal with yesterday's shit show.

Great compilation buddy!

Not that it /really/ matters, but I'm pretty sure at 8:05 it's "Yikes, uhh... ok" Great video as always!

This is a weird case of simultaneous impact nationwide, and pretty much every major ATC is broadcast, so we have all different streams available.

Notams: Nobody reads those. Gold….

Well done Victor!

"Nobody reads NOTAMs." Which is exactly why the former chairman of the NTSB told the FAA to work on how they word those things.

Thank goodness I didn’t have to work yesterday!

Very strange this situation

Love your videos! FYI, 0:45 all aircraft in the NAS national airspace system

Loved that last recording!!!

“Nobody reads NOTAMS”. When I was an FTE at Edwards, our standard preflight brief included a review of NOTAMS, though mostly to see if there was a launch out of Mojave Spaceport.

Funny! It's nice they took it with humor and good attitudes.

SAME THING HAPPENED HERE IN THE PHILIPPINES! It was crazy! So many passengers stranded. No any advise from CAAP or from anyone else

Love your compilation!!!!

Nobody reads NOTAM, that´s was the best.

They finally put out so many NOTAMSs the stack collapsed under its own weight.😉 And that is when you call dispatch and get them to wrangle up a VFR plan.

WOW - Kennedy Steve would have had a GREAT time with this one! !! !!!

Notams have become unusable. I believe they are written in some long forgotten language. There are too many and most are of no consequence. Apparently the FAA was more far concerned with changing the name of the system than making it work.

I thought NOTAMs were collected during flight preparation and printed (or in these days loaded on a tablet) before the flight, read in the preparation room, and only taken onboard for reference. If that is the case, the STOP would have to be applied on the preparation phase, and anyone already holding short of a runway for departure could just go.

7:15 Absolute Gold; He literally expects to be told to hold all takeoffs and tries to get them in the air before he is told officially and therefore has to comply. I don't know what to make of this, maybe I will right my thoughts when I have processed what I am thinking.

@3:05 he says think it has something to do with the notams then think the system is out. Thanks for the coverage as always

"A preliminary FAA review of last week’s outage of the Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system determined that contract personnel unintentionally deleted files while working to correct synchronization between the live primary database and a backup database" (Source: FAA) I've also read that the are saying that they were not following procedures, but I'm not sure if we will ever really know the details, but it makes sense as to way there was no fast recovery since both primary and backup systems were affected at the same time basically.

I was really scared I didn't know where the 212 foot tall, unlit tower 5 miles south of the airport was, terrifying really.

Captain Maggie doesn't need NOTAMs NOTAMs need Captain Maggie

We were scheduled to fly out that Wednesday afternoon on a direct flight from Indianapolis to Key West. Our delay was only about 1.5 hours. We were lucky. But it was kind of an eerie feeling that morning when we first heard the news.

0:34 Pretty sure he said "... all aircraft in the NAS (National Air Space)."

“Snowtam?” Victor needs to get someone to proof his captioning.

Love it! NOBODY READS NOTAMS!

“nobody reads notams” i love that guy

Much respect to all ATC personnel. Pilots don't like bad news, but you are just the messengers.

When you watch the FlightRadar24 history of the day, very few airborne aircraft grounded. There were still hundreds of flights across the continent, skipping airports that they could've landed at. I even saw a bunch taking off, and I am aware of what UTC is.

Retired from 37 years of fly for a major airline. I haven’t looked back one single minute since I left that industry!. The flying part was the best all the rest of the issues that go along with the business we’re not.

As a pilot, this is definitely the first time I have ever heard the phrase 'best rate of taxi" from a controller! (Scroll down to see people saying that I'm not a pilot! :)

The hamster on the wheel finally gave up the ghost.

Holy moly!

Back in the day I was a parascending instructor and we were operating in Norfolk, UK, and we had a NOTAM out for our area“ SEE & AVOID”. All of a sudden we got buzzed by two Buccaneer aircraft who were hedge hopping who saw the person under the parachute and did avoid ! A testy call to the Air Miss team from one of our instructors soon sorted things out ( he was a Squadron Leader in the RAF). So yeah, no one reads NOTAM’s !!

I was on IOE at my airline at the time. Luckily I had a late show that day, so I got to the airport after the ground stop was lifted and we were given an alternate method of accessing NOTAMs. Flight still canceled, and we got to repo an empty CRJ-900 from GSP to BNA. That was an interesting day.

My wife was caught in that yesterday coming home from San Diego to Phoenix. Got home about 2 hrs. later than initially predicted. The whole flight time is 1 hr. and 5 minutes from San Diego to Phoenix.