Software Glitches Cause Airport Delays in Britain

Posted by michael on Friday May 17, 2002 @04:26AM from the abort-retry-ignore dept.

bnoise writes "There has been air traffic delays of up to 6 hours today above UK (and this includes north atlantic flights). A BBC News article points out the reasons: a software upgrade. Another article gives more general information about the delays. Companies pin-pointed are IBM (initial development) and Lockheed Martin. If only they were using Open Source Software in the aviation industry... By the way, is there any Open Source project in the aviation sector? A search on Freshmeat gives back 5 projects."

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Re:Look at the Story! by radarvectors · 2002-05-17 10:00 · Score: 0, Redundant

That's definitely NOT photoshopped.

The aircraft in the foreground are parked at passenger gates, ditto for the aircraft in the background. There is only one aircraft in motion on the ramp/taxiway, and that's the aircraft proceeding from left to right in the center.

The apparent jumble of aircraft in the photograph is an effect of the telephoto lens used to capture the image.