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• Two Phrases That Don’t Belong Together: Software Bugs and Airplanes

  
  Software Testing Blog — Authority: 123
  The mere thought of air travel during the holidays is annoying enough to send most people running to their nearest bus or train station.  The crowds, the lines, the delays, the zip-lock bags and 3 oz bottles of shampoo… but wait, there’s more! Late last week, a five-hour computer glitch caused flight delays ...
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• Only approved electronic devices allowed in the cockpit?

  
  Gadling — Authority: 703
  Filed under: North America , United States , Airlines Maybe the flight attendants should start talking to the cockpit, too. When a plane overshot Minneapolis last month because the crew was playing around with personal laptops, national attention turned to what actually goes on in the front of the plane. ...
  1 day ago

• Lost in the Excitement

  
  Get the Flick — Authority: 134
  Two stories were lost in all the excitement of the FTI- inspired NADIN outage this week. Lockheed announces FSS consolidations ”Beginning in February, Lockheed will close its locations in Columbia, Mo.; Honolulu, Hawaii; Kankakee, Ill.; Lansing, Mich.; Nashville, Tenn.; Seattle, Wash., and St. Petersburg, ...
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• It’s Bad Enough

  
  Get the Flick — Authority: 134
  I know what people think. I know they think we just go out of our way to make these things look bad. Things at the FAA just can’t be as bad as we make them out to be. You can tell yourself that -- but it doesn’t change reality. Reality check: I’m just an old, retired controller (still young to the real ...
  2 days ago

• Broken Pieces of the Puzzle

  
  Get the Flick — Authority: 134
  I bet you came here today looking for an explanation of what went wrong yesterday. You’re going to get more than you bargained for. First, the FAA’s statement : ”The failure was attributed to a software configuration problem within the FAA Telecommunications Infrastructure (FTI) in Salt Lake City.  As a ...
  3 days ago

• Glitch snarls air traffic in latest woes for FAA (AP)

  
  Seo, Make Money Online and Technology — Authority: 147
  This came from Yahoo News AP - For the second time in a little more than a year, a glitch at one of the two centers that handle flight plans for the nation’s air travel system set off delays and cancellations for passengers around the country. Go to Source
  3 days ago

• Federal Aviation Administration Flights Delayed Due to Computer Break down

  
  UwidoNews - Submitted news — Authority: 170
  Flights over much of the eastern United States were delayed Thursday by a pre-dawn failure in a fairly new communications system, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/us/politics/20air.html
  3 days ago

• FAA’s Flight Plan Meldown

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 180
  The faas computer flight plan system failed for a few hours setting into motion a "ripple effect" that delayed flights nationwide.
  3 days ago

• AirTran Airways eyes seatback ads as novel way to boost revenue

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 805
  Filed under: Company News , Economy , People , Boeing It seems airlines will stoop to anything in their pursuit of saving or making money. Long gone are the days of free food on bargain flights. Be prepared to pay to check even one bag. As if those skinflint ideas werent enough, AirTran Airways ( AAI ) is ...
  3 days ago

• FAA: Computers Could Not Talk, Leading to Delays

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 180
  Federal officials say flights were delayed across the country when a piece of communications equipment in Salt Lake City failed. This prevented air traffic control computers from talking to each other
  3 days ago

• Faa Computer Glitch,Airline Delays Today

  
  TrendPK.com — Authority: 462
  Full Story And Original Content.TrendPK.com Faa Computer Glitch,Airline Delays Today:An FAA computer malfunction involving access to flight plans caused nationwide flight cancellations and delays Thursday. The glitch was fixed by mid-morning, but travelers continued to feel the effects and scrambled to make other ...
  3 days ago

• FAA network glitch causes manual flight plan processing

  
  eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism Industry News — Authority: 543
  The Federal Aviation Authority experienced a networking problem that started between 5:15 am and 5:30 am today and threatened to delay flights across the US. read more
  3 days ago

• FAA Computer Glitch Wreaks Havoc on Airports

  
  Blippitt.com — Authority: 566
  Air travelers across the country were left changing their plans on Thursday morning as an FAA computer glitch wreaked widespread havoc on regional airports. The Federal Aviation Administration now says that the glitch lasted for about four hours and was corrected by 9 a.m., but its effects are still being felt by ...
  3 days ago

• FAA Computer Glitch Caused Widespread Flight Delays

  
  Wide Trends — Authority: 143
  FAA Computer Glitch Caused Widespread Flight Delays: An FAA computer glitch for the second time in 15 months has rippled through airports across the country, causing major delays. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced today that a computer glitch would cause delays and cancellations of flights ...
  3 days ago

• Picked the wrong day to quit microprocessing

  
  SeriouslyGuys — Authority: 437
  Flights across the country were delayed by a problem with the FAA’s computers in Salt Lake City and Atlanta. Air traffic controllers were forced to enter flight plans by hand until the systems could be brought back online. When we asked FAA officials, “The computers? What is it?” they responded, “They’re ...
  3 days ago

• FAA Computer Glitch leads to flight delays in US

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 716
  New York, Nov 19 (THAINDIAN NEWS) An FAA computer malfunction involving access to flight plans caused nationwide flight cancellations and delays on Thursday morning in the US.The computer bug that caused all the problems was soon fixed in a few hours but travelers were affected and they struggled to make other ...
  3 days ago

• Hundreds of flights delayed today in the US as software gliches cause problems again

  
  Senses: A blog about the Thirdi Software perception — Authority: 130
  Thousands of air travelers were stranded today, waiting for computerized air traffic control systems to come back online after malfunctions hit some of America’s busiest airports. Vancouver YVR airport has not been listed as affected yet but it is expected that the problems caused by hundreds of flight ...
  3 days ago

• FAA glitch causes widespread US air travel delays

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 969
  ATLANTA -- Air travelers nationwide scrambled to revise their plans Thursday after an FAA computer glitch caused widespread cancellations and delays for the second time in 15 months.
  3 days ago

• FAA Computer Glitch Causing Widespread Flight Delays [Transportation]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 894
  For the second time in 15 months, an FAA computer glitch has rippled through airports across the country, causing major delays. Clearly, when one computer goes down in Salt Lake City and it drags down our entire air traffic system, something needs to be done. At any rate, if you have a flight to catch today, make ...
  3 days ago

• Midday Market Update: Mixed News Weighs on Investors

  
  ETF Trends — Authority: 562
  Stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are both solidly in negative territory this morning as a stronger dollar, a downgrade on the semiconductor industry and mixed economic news weighed on investor sentiment. The U.S. index of Leading Economic Indicators (LEI) rose 0.3% in October, marking the...
  3 days ago

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