Posted on 08/26/2008 12:38:00 PM PDT by Kimberly GG
Fox News Alert
MAJOR problem with national air traffic...specifically flight plan system....All air traffic halted, nationally.
I just looked at the Logan Airport Arrivals/Departures and see only a few delays.
>>>Theyve broken in on Fox twice to say major major problem with communication.
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“Or some pimply-faced kid living in his Mom’s basement.”
Hehe.
“Has Hillary landed in Denver yet? just asking...”
Just remember...she has a broom as a back-up...
ATL has a ground stop active for weather, but according to flightstats, the rest of the country looks okay.
Perhaps they already had their flight plans before the system failure.
It is going to be a huge air jam when all the flights back up and the others needs to land.
No diff then when there is a huge pile up on the freeway and very few off ramps.
ping
From the other thread started......ConservativeMan put up a link to the FAA map.
http://www.fly.faa.gov/flyfaa/usmap.jsp
FFA = Future Farmers of America
Yeah but resetting memory was a pain in the neck!
LOL
You are a funny girl!
are flights being ordered to land or are then getting to their destinations.
A little blurb on local radio stated everything is normal at Denver International.
Yeah, they contracted with somebody, Big Blue I think, for a system-side software upgrade, and it became one of the biggest boondoggles in software history. Right up there with the IRS modernization. First, they wouldn’t freeze the feature set long enough to allow anyone to get any work done, then they kept asking for useless or unfeasible features.
Prayers up for everyone who has someone in the air right now.
FAA is assuring us that this is a computer glitch, and that no planes are “lost” to traffic controllers.
I want to believe that.
>>Did somebody hack the system?
How the hell could you? All the people who knew Fortran and Cobol are dead. ;o)
LOL
Is the disgruntled Natasia (sic) and her Dad in flight right now?
Its a conspiracy I tell ya.
/joking
It’ll be the jam of all jams, with over 5,000 flights in the air right now (as per map shown on CNN.)
Here we go again..... Wonder if there was a group of jihadis captured trying to board a flight with bad intent?
LOL...........
I wonder if Occam’s Razor doesn’t apply and that there is a glitch in the computer system somewhere..... Very few systems run forever without glitches.
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