FAA Pushes Air Traffic Control Systems Into Service

An anonymous reader points us to this AP story about the FAA forcing new air traffic control systems into service, over the objections of technicians and air traffic controllers. The Transportation Department's Inspector General notes that many critical bugs remain unfixed. We reviewed a book that discussed the lessons to be learned from software engineering projects; and we had a recent story about Great Britain having all sorts of problems with their new air traffic control software.

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It's a karma drain, but someone has to do it...

[Dimensio]

...If we can't crash our airplanes into buildings accidentally before the terrorists do it deliberately then the terrorists have already won.

Who needs terrorists anymore?

[corebreech]

Buggy air traffic control systems can fly just as many planes into buildings as even the most talented terrorist, be he Mossad, CIA or an amateur.

I say paint big signs on the sides of all buildings near airports that read: "If you can read this, pull up NOW!"

Oh, and duck a lot.