The corporate IT magazine ‘Baseline’ has a sprawling, somewhat uneven, but nonetheless fascinating article related to the spectacular August 26th system failure of the National Airspace Data Interchange Network (NADIN) site in Atlanta. One interesting tidbit: the existing mainframe hardware — in use continuously since 1988 — was actually first manufactured in the 1960s and [...]
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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 [...]
