The AP’s Joelle Tessler and Jordan Robertson filed a follow-up story Friday that includes a variety of quotes on the significance of Tuesday’s glitch at the FAA’s flight plan filing center in Georgia. A few excerpts:
“If this (FAA outage) happened at a power plant, I’d be telling them to open up their checkbook and expect to [...]
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August 30, 2008
On the record: Mixed reactions to Tuesday’s outage
August 27, 2008
System failure delays ‘hundreds’ of flights
Reuters reports schedules are returning to normal after Tuesday’s 4.5-hour system failure of the National Airspace Data Interchange Network(NADIN) in Hampton, GA.
The cause of the failure was not known but it was not due to a computer hacking attack, said Hank Krakowski, chief operations officer for the FAA’s air traffic division.
“It appears to be an internal [...]
