Flight resuming nationwide, including Miami and Fort Lauderdale, after an FAA outage

Expect your flight out of Miami International Airport, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport or Palm Beach International Airport — or any airport in the United States — to be affected after a Wednesday morning FAA information outage.

After originally ordering a stop on all domestic departures until 9 a.m. Eastern time, the Federal Aviation Administration announced at 8:15 a.m. that flights would resume out of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and Newark Liberty International Airport “due to air traffic congestion in those areas.”

The FAA lifted the ground stop at the remaining airports at 8:50 a.m.

Just before 7 a.m., the FAA announced just before 7 a.m. that its Notice to Air Missions System (NOTAM) was being reloaded after an outage. On the FAA website, the agency said the system was “impaired and newly processed NOTAMs are not being displayed.”

The Notice to Air Mission System lets pilots know about any number of temporary hazards or changes in conditions in their flight paths or at their destinations.

“All flights currently in the sky are safe to land,” the FAA tweeted at 8:13 a.m.

Greg Chin, an MIA spokesman, said international flights have been able to land in Miami because they didn’t originate in the United States. But domestic flights bound for Miami had been held at their originating airport since 6:30 a.m.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre took to Twitter to say U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg briefed President Joe Biden on the outage and “there is no evidence of a cyberattack at this point.”

But she also said that Biden ordered a full Department of Transportation investigation into the cause.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

How can you check a flight’s status?

Miami International Airport has two online trackers you can use.

One of the flight trackers shows a list of all expected arrivals and departures with options to use a drop-down menu to narrow results. It displays the carrier, flight number and where the plane is going to or coming from. It also gives real-time updates on the flight’s arrival or departure status, which concourse the terminal is in and the location of baggage claim.

The other online tool lets you track by flight or route. If you know the carrier, the date and the flight number, this tool might be easier to use because it will only show information for your flight.

FLL’s flight tracker works by flight or route. You’ll need to know the date, along with the airline carrier and flight number or the departure and arrival airport. The tool also gives people the option to see a list of all expected arrivals and departures and details on the flight’s terminal and baggage claim, too.

You can also check your flight status with the airline directly, which might be easier to do through the airline’s app. But you can also check via the airline’s website.

Miami Herald Staff Writer Doug Hanks contributed to this report.