However, spokesman Christopher White said flight plans are having to be loaded manually because of a malfunction with the automated system.
"Everything is safe in the air," White said.
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the world's busiest airport, has been particularly affected.
AirTran had canceled 22 flights and dozens more flights were delayed as of 8 a.m. EST. Delta Air Lines also has been affected.
The FAA said in a statement that it is having a problem processing flight plan information.
"We are investigating the cause of the problem," the agency said. "We are processing flight plans manually and expect some delays. We have radar coverage and communications with planes."
From: http://ping.fm/dityN
Monday, November 30, 2009
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Nepal follows Maldives: Nepalese Cabinet to meet on Mt Everest
On 4 December prime minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and those politicians physically fit enough will ascend 17,192ft (5,250m) to base camp.
This meeting, to be held before the Copenhagen climate conference, aims to highlight Himalayan glacier melt.
With ice in the region melting at a rapid rate, lakes have been formed which could flood nearby villages.
Melted ice and snow also makes mountaineering routes more hazardous.
At such a high altitude health is a major concern, so a team of doctors will accompany the politicians.
They will fly to Everest's only airstrip, Lukla.
Doctors will make a final health assessment before a helicopter takes the cabinet to base camp, at the foot of Everest.
Once there they will hold a brief outdoor meeting.
From: http://ping.fm/sHSj5
This meeting, to be held before the Copenhagen climate conference, aims to highlight Himalayan glacier melt.
With ice in the region melting at a rapid rate, lakes have been formed which could flood nearby villages.
Melted ice and snow also makes mountaineering routes more hazardous.
At such a high altitude health is a major concern, so a team of doctors will accompany the politicians.
They will fly to Everest's only airstrip, Lukla.
Doctors will make a final health assessment before a helicopter takes the cabinet to base camp, at the foot of Everest.
Once there they will hold a brief outdoor meeting.
From: http://ping.fm/sHSj5
John Demjanjuk's Nazi Trial Opens
John Demjanjuk, an 89-year-old former U.S. auto worker, went on trial in Germany on Monday facing charges he helped to force 27,900 Jews into gas chambers in an extermination camp in 1943.
Demjanjuk entered the court in a wheelchair, a Reuters witness said. More than 200 journalists from around the world descended on the court in the southern city of Munich for what is likely to be Germany's last major Nazi-era trial.
German state prosecutors believe Demjanjuk, who was top of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most-wanted war criminals, assisted in murders at the Sobibor death camp in what is now Poland, where at least 250,000 Jews were killed.
From: http://ping.fm/xYPXB
Demjanjuk entered the court in a wheelchair, a Reuters witness said. More than 200 journalists from around the world descended on the court in the southern city of Munich for what is likely to be Germany's last major Nazi-era trial.
German state prosecutors believe Demjanjuk, who was top of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most-wanted war criminals, assisted in murders at the Sobibor death camp in what is now Poland, where at least 250,000 Jews were killed.
From: http://ping.fm/xYPXB
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