live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in america where aviation authorities are still trying to find out why a safety messaging system failed, grounding all departing flights for more than an hour early on wednesday. the white house says there is no evidence of a cyber attack at this point. the us transport secretary said the federal aviation administration must find out why backup systems didn t prevent the failure. our north america correspondent gary o donaghue reports. it was in the early hours that the problems began to emerge with the notam system, which warns pilots of any dangers before they take off. byjust after 7:00am, the federal aviation authority was ordering all carriers across the us to ground their planes untilfurther notice, causing chaos for early morning travellers. i m a little annoyed. i feel bad for the people who are actually sitting on pl
masters of the rock era, dies suddenly at the age of 78. little relief from the rain in california as the chaos caused by deadly downpours becomes clear, there s warnings of worse weather to come. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. an investigation into the failure of the safety messaging system which led to all departing flights in the united states being grounded early on wednesday was caused by a damaged file in a database and not by a cyber attack. that s according to an investigation by the federal aviation authority. flights have been getting back to normal, but the us transport secretary said the faa must find out why backup systems did not prevent the failure. our north america correspondent, gary o donahew reports. it was in the early hours that the problems began to emerge with the notam system, which warns pilots of any dangers before they take off. byjust after 7:00am, the federal aviation authority was ordering all carriers across the
little relief from the rain in california, as the chaos caused by deadly downpours becomes clear. there s warnings of worse weather to come. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america, and around the globe. an investigation into the failure of the safety messaging system, which led to all departing flights in the united states being grounded early on wednesday was caused by a damaged file in a database, and not by a cyber attack. that s according to an investigation by the federal aviation authority. flights have been getting back to normal, but the us transport secretary said the faa must find out why backup systems did not prevent the failure. our north america correspondent, gary o donahew reports. it was in the early hours that the problems began to emerge with the notam system, which warns pilots of any dangers before they take off. byjust after 7am, the federal aviation authority was ordering all carriers across the us to ground their planes until further notice, causing
well, earlier i spoke to associated press airline reporter david koenig and asked what he felt had gone wrong. hejoins a smell from he joins a smell from dallas. thank you forjoining us. the faa says the system failure was due to a system failure but there are questions as to why backup systems didn t actually prevent the failure, so where did it all go wrong? that prevent the failure, so where did it all go wrong? did it all go wrong? that is exactly right. did it all go wrong? that is exactly right. that - did it all go wrong? that is exactly right. that is - did it all go wrong? that is exactly right. that is what | did it all go wrong? that is i exactly right. that is what the investigation is hopefully going to answer because it is just an ironclad ruling on aviation that you are supposed to have redundancy, you are not supposed to have what is cold a single window failure wedge is one thing goes wrong and the whole system collapses. the faa is under a lot of pressure to descri
demanded as soon as possible. gary 0 donoghue, bbc news. we can now speak to associated press airline reporter, david koenig whojoins us from dallas. the faa say the system failure was due to a damaged file, lots of questions as to why backup systems didn t prevent the failure, where did it all go wrong? that s exactly right that s what the investigation will hopefully answer, because there is an ironclad rule in aviation you are supposed to have redundancy, you aren t supposed to have a single point of failure we just one thing goes wrong and the whole system collapses. the faa under a lot of pressure, to describe why they didn t have a backup system or if they do why it didn t work. they tried to