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U.S. computer glitch could cause delays to Canadian flights

Canada's civil airspace authority said Canadians could expect air traffic communications network problems that grounded planes south of the border on Tuesday to have an impact on flights to and from the U.S. ...

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Aug 26, 2008
 
... but for the moment travellers don't have to be concerned," said Aeroports de Montreal spokeswoman Anne Marcotte.

The FAA said it was hoping to solve the problem by early Tuesday evening.

scAir Canada said only one flight was affected in Boston which,...
Steve Hettinger wrote:
My brother works as a airline dispatcher.... something else is going on
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Audio recording of final minutes of Swissair Flight 111

Monday | Telegram

... a testing regime be established to evaluate if aircraft wiring could fail under realistic operating conditions.

"The FAA has adopted an approach called 'in-service failure,' " said Seymour. "

In other words,

something has to fail first before you ...

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this is the 3rd or 4th failure in the last year, haven't they ever heard of redundant circuits?
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NORAD has them so if they don't no wonder problems
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this was the Topix Linked story HeadLine Thread Tues

FAA computer problems causing flight delays

Every major airport in the United States was experiencing flight delays Tuesday afternoon because of a communications breakdown at a Federal Aviation Administration facility, the administration said...

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