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Just Breaking... ALL American Flights grounded until at least 2:30PM EST.

While "Computer glitches" are fairly normal, rarely does it result in a NATIONWIDE Ground Stop. Something serious happening?

1 posted on 09/17/2015 10:22:14 AM PDT by tcrlaf
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American Airlines
Verified account
AmericanAir
We’re working to resolve technical issues impacting several airports as quickly as possible. Sorry for the inconvenience.

https://twitter.com/AmericanAir/status/644558678885048321


2 posted on 09/17/2015 10:25:12 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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The Secret Covert Action Servers in the WHitehouse Sub Basement...getting another workout

oh no it must be those Expert Hackers from Kin Jong Un-Hinged’s North Korean

an.... Oh Look a Squirrel moment perhaps?


3 posted on 09/17/2015 10:25:37 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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No Fly List didn’t work today?


4 posted on 09/17/2015 10:27:08 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (Heteropatriarchal Capitalist)
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Computer Glitches: Have you tried turning your computer off and then on again?


5 posted on 09/17/2015 10:29:09 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (BREAKING: Boy Scouts of America Changes Corporate Identity to "Scouting for Boys in America")
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United was grounded by a "glitch" in early July. Coincidence or cyber-attack?

-PJ

6 posted on 09/17/2015 10:33:15 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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Years back, I worked as a contractor for UAL.

Some plumbers had a leak near the main maintenance computer.
A liquid detection system shut everything down.

Alarms, flashing lights...without that system a plane on the ground stays on the ground.

I often wandered if they kept the unfortunate plumbers in a cage under the building.


9 posted on 09/17/2015 10:37:51 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (BINGO!)
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Usually a software problem. They can’t check passengers in on flights.


10 posted on 09/17/2015 10:41:18 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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Maybe if, instead of spending $4 billion on a stock buyback, American had invested some of that money on their IT infrastructure, airplanes, people, and facilities then things like this wouldn’t happen?


12 posted on 09/17/2015 10:49:50 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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The new American Airlines, off to a fine start.


13 posted on 09/17/2015 10:50:53 AM PDT by onedoug
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Another Windows automatic update.


14 posted on 09/17/2015 10:57:39 AM PDT by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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Just Breaking... ALL American Flights grounded until at least 2:30PM EST.

Why are the airlines using Standard Time?

17 posted on 09/17/2015 11:12:51 AM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (ANYBODY who would choose Trump over Cruz has a screw loose.)
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The 14-year old muslim kid flew from Dallas to Washington, D.C. with his “clock” to meet Obama?


18 posted on 09/17/2015 11:15:47 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Liberals are like the Taliban and ISIS....destroying cultural icons they don't like.)
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Coincides with the opening of the new combined operations center for AA and USAir flights. Probably sabotage by an unhappy employee.


19 posted on 09/17/2015 11:26:18 AM PDT by PAR35
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Please tell me, not Krakozhia again!


21 posted on 09/17/2015 11:28:43 AM PDT by Buffalo Bob
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iOS 9?


23 posted on 09/17/2015 11:31:32 AM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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Isn’t this the second this has happened recently?


25 posted on 09/17/2015 1:20:18 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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Talked to my son. It was primarily a reservations glitch. Not much affect on operations.


26 posted on 09/17/2015 2:14:31 PM PDT by Vinnie
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