more incompetence.
A red faced U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) admitted Thursday its staff “unintentionally deleted files” in a key computer system causing the January 11 commercial airline ground stop, which affected more than 11,000 flights and caused mayhem for travelers.
Reuters reports the FAA said the human error occurred while personnel were working “to correct synchronisation between the live primary database and a backup database”, and it had “so far found no evidence of a cyber attack or malicious intent.”
Unintentionally, my left foot! NO! ALL IT people stress, over and over again, the importance of backups. I am positive the FAA has redundant systems so that accident can delete the files in a "key" (no less) computer system.
I don't have enough faith to believe that.