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The Federal Aviation Administration announced that a nationwide system outage was likely due to incompetence on the part of some personnel.

A preliminary review supported the agency's conclusion Wednesday that the outage was due to a damaged database file; the question now being explored is how the file was damaged.

The review blamed employees who didn't follow the proper procedures.

"The agency determined that a data file was damaged by personnel who failed to follow procedures. The system is functioning properly, and cancellations today were below one percent," the FAA said in a statement obtained by Reuters.

The FAA did not say which procedures were skipped that led up to the situation.