Posted on 01/12/2023 11:36:07 AM PST by DFG
With the Federal Aviation Administration's Notice To all Air Missions, or NOTAM, system back up and running, staffing remains high and systems monitoring is at an urgently high level this morning, a senior official told ABC News Thursday.
Computer traffic on the NOTAM system is at super-high levels as airlines, pilots and airports start the day with normal flight operations while also trying to make up for delays and cancellations yesterday. At the same time, public and media computer traffic on the NOTAM system is running high because of global interest in the antiquated system that crashed on Wednesday.
The ground stop order that paused all airplane domestic departures and the FAA systems failures Wednesday morning appear to have been the result of a mistake that occurred during routine scheduled systems maintenance, according to a senior official briefed on the internal review.
An engineer "replaced one file with another," the official said, not realizing the mistake was being made. As the systems began showing problems and ultimately failed, FAA staff feverishly tried to figure out what had gone wrong. The engineer who made the error did not realize what had happened.
Engineers and IT teams are working to keep the system from crashing again today while they also try to figure out if there are any similar systems that could fail without redundancies.
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Sure... figured this was a security test run ahead of next week’s WEF fest
They will tell us anything and know that most people will believe it.
But the truth...be damned.
It was the disgronificator.
Ouch. Just ouch.
A good demonstration of how vulnerable our “critical infrastructure” has become in the age of computers.
I don’t view this as a partisan political problem either and while I am no fan of Mayor Pete’s politics, this was just as vulnerable under the past secretaries as it is today.
This is a national security issue and regardless of who occupies the WH or congress it does not seem to be improving.
It’s not just government either. Major corporations suffer from the same vulnerabilities (see Southwest a few weeks ago) and buffoonery.
Probably a woke or affirmative ass hire.
Engineers and IT teams are working to keep the system from crashing again today while they also try to figure out if there are any “incompetent persons with engineering degrees in wokeness that have access to” similar systems that could fail without redundancies.
Fixed it.
Was that engineer a diversity, equity, gee I don’t know much hire or is this just a big fat carver-up?
FAA:
Uh, yeah sure. Pull the other one, will ya?
They will fire the person who “made the mistake.” But that won’t solve the problem. The problem is a screwed up system in which a minor error actually triggers a major shutdown.
In a system where a major shutdown is absolutely NOT ACCEPTABLE, there must be safeguards, redundancy, and fall back positions. Looks like there were none.
I once brought a $12 million dollar an hour factory to a screeching halt after someone pressed a stop button and after that nothing would run. I was already on the plane back home. I had a MCR unlatch bit added but forgot the (R) reset instruction bit. Everything worked fine until the stop button was pushed.
A simple test of edits would have warned me!
This is why we have configuration management ...
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