Posted on 08/28/2023 6:36:08 AM PDT by dynachrome
The UK's air traffic control system has been hit by a 'huge network failure' on one of the busiest days of the year - causing chaos for tens of thousands of holidaymakers that could last days.
Britain's National Air Traffic Services (NATS) said it is experiencing 'technical issues' that have forced controllers to reduce the rate that aircraft are able to land and take off.
This has led to hundreds of flights being delayed both in and out of the UK. Britons returning from Tenerife told MailOnline they had been told to expect a wait of at least 12 hours.
The majority (78%) of flights leaving Heathrow are currently delayed, according to Flight Radar data from 1.45pm, compared to 74% at Gatwick, 81% at Manchester and 86% at Bristol.
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The technical issues are either a hack or extremely poorly run computer network, networks of this size don’t fail on their own,
I recall a story last week about a massive solar flare causing electromagnetic pulses reaching Earth that could damage electronic systems. I do not know if this is a factor.
Putin says hello.
“ networks of this size don’t fail on their own,”
Maybe Lucas was involved somehow.
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I was wondering how long it would take someone to catch that.
Well done.
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I’m wondering if the UK’s Deep State did it...
Buttegeig is in the U’K consulting?
Why is it “one of the busiest days of the year”? I scrolled through the article but didn’t see mention as to the reason for an increase in travel.
Not the most likely. Correctly designed networks have multiple paths available for data to reach their destination. They’re incredibly resilient when you don’t have a single point of failure. There would be no excuse to have a single point of failure here.
The same goes for compute servers, databases, etc.. Most likely they’ve been hacked and many devices on the network have been compromised. There’s no instant fix.
Probably so. I recall reading a heads-up about that.
Windows Millennium Edition ?
This type of thing gets my interest, I spent 20 years installing and maintaining major computer networks for companies that not only nationwide networks but worldwide networks.
When large major networks fail like this and then supposedly take days to get them back to operating normally, it’s either a hack or complete ineptitude on the part of the network management team.
Then it it’s a hack, routers and switches that keep the networks running don’t have traditional package software on that couldn’t be overcome with a simple reboot is the software was encrypted, if the hardware were to break, usually large networks like this have guaranteed 1-2 hour response time for new equipment that could be installed and brought up to operational status in a matter of maybe one hour.
What could happen is somehow major fiber optic links got cut somewhere, that could take days to resolve.
I was a tower controller in Del Rio (Laughlin) and I can give you another failure you didn’t mention. We had a commercial power failure, and the back up generator did not kick in. It was a rather helpless feeling, to have a sky full of aircraft, and no one was controlling them. The only thing I had that worked, was a secondary telephone. The RAPCON made a blanket broadcast, on guard, that we were off the air, and the airport was uncontrolled, so all the aircraft landed. No more practice approaches.
Good thing they’re not in charge of healthcare.
You’re right a major power failure that involved backup generators would be a big deal, my experience is that major networks have power failure tests on a regular basis, insuring the backup generators are operational is a major part of the tests, meaning if that happened in this case, it could be attributed to poor management of the network team.
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