AvTalk Episode 198: Organ Transplant Logistics
AvTalk - Aviation Podcast
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4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of AvTalk, we walk through what we know (so far) about the FAA’s NOTAM system outage. And Casey Humphries from the United Network for Organ Sharing and Chris Curran of New England Donor Services join us to explain how transplant organs get from donor to recipient and the critical role played by […]
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| 0:15.8 | Hello and welcome to episode 198 of Avtoc I am Ian Petchenik here as always with Jason Rabinowitz and how's it going Ian are you happy to have not been flying |
| 0:20.9 | anywhere today? Oh it has been a day. Oh, it has been a day. |
| 0:25.0 | I could not be more happy to not be flying anywhere today myself. |
| 0:29.0 | Unfortunately, for thousands of other folks who are flying it has been an even longer day than it has |
| 0:36.5 | been for either of us. We're recording on the 11th of January here and as it turns out news broke before we hit the record button. |
| 0:45.8 | Yeah, we had several people replied to us. |
| 0:49.8 | Do you already record, are you responsible for this and shockingly? |
| 0:53.9 | No, we get to talk about the thing that happened earlier today, |
| 0:57.3 | not something that happened last week, |
| 0:59.7 | exactly a week earlier. |
| 1:01.0 | So this is good news for us bad news for literally everybody else. |
| 1:05.6 | Right right so here's what happened according to a notice posted in the advisory section |
| 1:12.2 | of the FAA's National Air Space website at |
| 1:15.4 | 2048 UTC on the 10th of January so sometime Tuesday afternoon Eastern Local time |
| 1:21.9 | the system that manages the notice to |
| 1:26.5 | air missions system went down, the Notum system went down. Wasn't a huge issue at that point? |
| 1:35.0 | There was a notice posted, flights kept going, |
| 1:38.0 | there was nothing really happening |
| 1:41.0 | until this morning when the system that had been backing up that system they |
| 1:46.3 | decided that they needed to restart the main system to clear whatever needed to be cleared and |
| 1:56.6 | as a precaution because there were some issues with the system coming back online. The first ground stop for any flights issued was at 527 Eastern on Wednesday the morning of the 11th. |
| 2:07.0 | That was a United Airlines specific ground stop. |
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