The aviation computer problem causing flight delays around the country is similar to the outage reported by federal aviation officials less than a week ago.
The Federal Aviation Administration’s Web site says the air traffic planning system suffered an outage on Thursday that delayed the departure of at least 134 flights.
The outage in the NADIN — short for National Air Space Data Interchange Network — occurred at the same Georgia facility where computers went down on Tuesday, causing delays at some three dozen major airports.
The Georgia facility is one of two NADIN locations in the United States. The other is in Salt Lake City.
When half the system is not functioning, air traffic controllers have to load flight plans manually, which causes delays.