What’s behind the computer glitch that grounded US flights?

Hundreds of home and worldwide flights have been disrupted on Wednesday.

Failure of a safety-critical system compelled the grounding of all departing planes in america for 90 minutes on Wednesday.

Hundreds of flights have been disrupted – home and worldwide – with delays to planes heading to the US from elsewhere.

The Federal Aviation Administration mentioned an preliminary overview traced the fault to a broken database file.

However there isn't a proof of a cyberattack as but.

So how might this occur – and what classes will be discovered?

Presenter: Folly Bah Thibault

Company:

Kyle Bailey – Former Federal Aviation Administration Security Staff consultant and a pilot.

Jody Westby – Chief government at World Cyber Danger.

Alex Macheras – Aviation analyst.