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Multiple flights from US West Coast airports heading across the Pacific Ocean were subjected to delays and disruption following an IT outage at the Oakland Oceanic Air Traffic Control Center (ARTCC) located in Oakland near San Francisco <\/a>on February 22, 2025. The hour-long outage saw some flights enter holding patterns while others were held on the ground until the problem could be fixed.<\/p>\n

Flights departing from several airports on the US West Coast, including San Francisco Airport (SFO), Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), and Seattle\u2013Tacoma International Airport (SEA), were affected by the IT failure. Airlines affected ed included United Airlines<\/a>, Delta Air Lines, as well as several Hawaiian Airlines flights.<\/p>\n

According to a report published by the San Francisco Chronicle, one United flight heading to Lihue in Hawaii operated by a Boeing 737 MAX 8 had reached its initial cruising altitude of 30,000ft (10,500m) over the Pacific Ocean before being asked to enter a holding pattern by air traffic controllers. Having completed three circuits of the holding pattern, the aircraft subsequently returned to San Francisco Airport, landing some two hours and ten minutes after it had departed the Californian airport.<\/p>\n

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The Federal Aviation Administration <\/a>(FAA) reported that the flight disruption was caused by the failure of an IT system known as the Advanced Technologies & Oceanic Procedures (ATOP) Ocean21 system. The San Francisco Chronicle stated that the system was first rolled out in 2004 and was produced by Lockheed Martin.<\/p>\n

According to the FAA, this system replaced the previous FAA oceanic air traffic control system (known as ODAPS) and among other improvements, \u201cupdated procedures, and modernized the oceanic automation systems located at Oakland (ZOA), New York (ZNY), and Anchorage (ZAN) Air Route Traffic Control Centers (ARTCCs).\u201d<\/p>\n

The FAA adds that the ATOP\u00a0system is responsible for:<\/p>\n