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FAA problems causing cross-country flight delays
5/4/2004 11:45 AM
By: News 24 Houston
Planes were backed up on the runways, waiting to take off.
If you're flying in or out of an airport today, you'd better be prepared to wait.
The Federal Aviation Administration says there are major computer problems going on all over the country, forcing many delays.
"At this time -- at 11 o'clock, the FAA told us that their problem was fixed, and we're just catching up as best as we can," said Houston Airport System spokesman Ernie DeSoto.
According to DeSoto, the whole thing started around 8:45 this morning.
The FAA Center had some computer problems, which they addressed as soon as they could. But for a while, nothing was allowed to depart.
Eventually the FAA started departing only northbound traffic, and then they started departing only eastbound traffic -- a manual depart, with certain miles of separation.(snip)
http://www.news24houston.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=28308
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The Federal Aviation Administration says there are major computer problems going on all over the country, forcing many delays. "At this time -- at 11 o'clock, the FAA told us that their problem was fixed, and we're just catching up as best as we can," said Houston Airport System spokesman Ernie DeSoto.
According to DeSoto, the whole thing started around 8:45 this morning.
The FAA Center had some computer problems, which they addressed as soon as they could. But for a while, nothing was allowed to depart."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Well it does appear that someone is messing with the computers, doesn't it? Are they just practicing for when they can shut all the computers down, then what happens to all the planes still in the air? Is that possible is there backup for the computers?
2,134 posted on
05/04/2004 11:09:06 AM PDT by
WestCoastGal
("Hire paranoids, they may have a high false alarm rate, but they discover all the plots" Rumsfeld)
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This is interesting because at AA reservations, there was NO overtime being offerred which is the usual MO when things get slammed. Just a normal day call volume wise.
2,234 posted on
05/04/2004 3:59:14 PM PDT by
Indie
(We don't need no steenkin' experts!)
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