Posted on 07/08/2015 7:13:50 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
United Airlines flights have been grounded nationwide due to a computer system glitch.
Millions of passengers are currently stranded at airports across the U.S. after the airline requested that all planes be prevented from taking off, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
In a statement, United spokesman Luke Punzenberger told Bloomberg that the company had experienced a 'network connectivity issue' and was 'working to resolve this' as quickly as possible.
'[We] apologize to our customers for any inconvenience,' he added.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Not a funny situation but lol at that picture
Live by the computer, die by the computer.
Now. Where’s that “The High and the Mighty” DVD?
The way commercial aviation used to be... (sigh)
I was just looking at an article from another thread here and happened to notice something for this and a banner reading that United ban was just lifted? 15 min ago.
Just saying what I saw; don’t really know about this issue yet.
Crap. I upgraded to Windows 7 last night. That might be what caused this.
Muhammad: "How did you accomplish this great thing! Did you hijack many planes! Get a dirty bomb into an airport?"
Abdul: "Uhhh no....I unplugged the computer at the United terminal...."
Yeah, this DM article is at least an hour old. I think it may need a mahor update.
If this is a real name, we are so screwed.
Is it a hack of United’s system?
I understand United is back on line now, thought it’ll take most of the day to unravel this mess. Glad I don’t fly them.
Hackers?
I was able to rewind back on Fox news several minutes to check if it was on the crawl (never saw main broadcast talk about it). Indeed, a note on the crawl said it is lifted.
“Millions of passengers are currently stranded at airports across the U.S. after the airline requested that all planes be prevented from taking off, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). “
Really......millions?
Maybe they will consider a back up system now...
Leap second added last week through off all schedules.
Hackers are so screwed.
My mother is going home from Denver to New Orleans via Houston. Her flight is just now backing out of the gate. She was supposed to leave at 6 AM. I don’t know what to tell her about her connecting flight.
“What do you make of this?”
All your airplanes are ours.
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