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American Airlines grounding flights.
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Posted on 04/16/2013 12:23:46 PM PDT by gop4lyf

A buddy of mine works at AA headquarters and he says that they are freaking out there over a outage in the reservation system. He says that they are grounding all flights globally. They can't figure out what's wrong and suspect it may be cyber terrorism.


TOPICS: Breaking News
KEYWORDS: americanairlines; cyberterrorism; flightsgrounded
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1 posted on 04/16/2013 12:23:46 PM PDT by gop4lyf
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Just got this text from him...

“Possible terrorism... None of our applications function, including Aatms, ims, sales link...”


2 posted on 04/16/2013 12:25:04 PM PDT by gop4lyf (Are we no longer in that awkward time? Or is it still too early?)
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Govt cant let those white, Christian, gun owning, Tea Party members whom bombed the Boston Marathon get away to their tax haven countries of refuge! /sarc


3 posted on 04/16/2013 12:25:24 PM PDT by DCBryan1
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To: DCBryan1

Iranians


4 posted on 04/16/2013 12:26:33 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: DCBryan1

The only solution is that we citizens give up all our rights and let government save us.


5 posted on 04/16/2013 12:27:11 PM PDT by EEGator
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Just got word from some employes flying out today. Looks like a computer glitch. http://m.kltv.com/autojuice?targetUrl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.kltv.com%2fstory%2f21993863%2ffaa-american-airlines-grounds-flights-nationwide


6 posted on 04/16/2013 12:27:36 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

Or North Korea. Hell, If I was Kim Jong-un...I would have launchted thoses MRBMs yesterday while Obama was distracted on how NOT to say the word “Terrorism” or “Islamic”.


7 posted on 04/16/2013 12:28:02 PM PDT by DCBryan1
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To: gop4lyf

Where is the HQ?


8 posted on 04/16/2013 12:28:02 PM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory, and He will not be mocked! Blessed be the Name of the Lord forever!)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

"All your pranes are belong to us."

9 posted on 04/16/2013 12:28:14 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Zuben Elgenubi
Inquisition...nobody expects them.
10 posted on 04/16/2013 12:28:21 PM PDT by EEGator
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/american-airlines-deals-with-shutdown-of-its-computerized-reservations-system/2013/04/16/071f880a-a6c1-11e2-9e1c-bb0fb0c2edd9_story.html


11 posted on 04/16/2013 12:28:23 PM PDT by Wisconsinlady (If babies had guns, they wouldn't be aborted)
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To: don-o

Fort Worth


12 posted on 04/16/2013 12:29:06 PM PDT by John W (Viva Cristo Rey!)
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To: EEGator

Never! Leave the cities before everyone tries to...


13 posted on 04/16/2013 12:29:10 PM PDT by seeker41 (Currently a displaced Texan)
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To: don-o

Dallas


14 posted on 04/16/2013 12:29:18 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: gop4lyf

Who needs cyber terrorism when you have unions and Windows.


15 posted on 04/16/2013 12:30:07 PM PDT by Theoria
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Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.....Robert Heinlein......


16 posted on 04/16/2013 12:30:47 PM PDT by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
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“He says that they are grounding all flights globally.”

As someone with more than 800K miles on American, I can assure you this will be the first passenger service improvement in more than a decade.


17 posted on 04/16/2013 12:33:13 PM PDT by I cannot think of a name
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To: Theoria

HQ is in Ft. Worth a little southwest of DFW airport. Headquarters employees aren’t unionized.


18 posted on 04/16/2013 12:33:30 PM PDT by gop4lyf (Are we no longer in that awkward time? Or is it still too early?)
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To: Theoria
Who needs cyber terrorism when you have unions and Windows.

Not quite - Windows is bad, but we can't blame this on them. I believe that AA runs Sabre on IBM mainframes.

19 posted on 04/16/2013 12:34:42 PM PDT by RobertClark (My shrink just killed himself - he blamed me in his note!)
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To: I cannot think of a name

LOL! I keep telling him to go work for Southwest Airlines.


20 posted on 04/16/2013 12:35:01 PM PDT by gop4lyf (Are we no longer in that awkward time? Or is it still too early?)
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