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Database Glitch Grounds American/US Airways

Posted by timothy on from the abort-retry-fail-land dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to numerous news sources, all American Airlines and US Airways flights were grounded for two or three hours this morning. Both problems were caused by a computer glitch in the systems hosted by EDS. Quote: The operating system that drives the airline's flight plans went down."

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  1. Re:Operating System (singular) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, Have they not learned about redundancy?

  2. Settle down, we've all seen this before... by the_seal · · Score: 4, Funny

    Airport BSOD

  3. Last thing you want to hear by xIcemanx · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm guessing the last thing you want to hear on a plane now is the pilot saying, "What do you mean, fatal exception error?"

    >_ Why don't they swtich to Linux?

    1. Re:Last thing you want to hear by Brandybuck · · Score: 5, Funny

      Q: How far can the plane fly after a fatal exception error?

      A: All the way to the scene of the crash. Hell, it will probably beat the paramedics there by half an hour!

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  4. BSOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Blue screen of life. Because US Air cancelled the flight and we were forced to fly on a competent airline.

  5. Re:Operating System (singular) by njcoder · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Have they not learned about redundancy?"

    Yep, their so good, even the failure was replicated!

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  6. I thought everyone knew by Xerp · · Score: 5, Funny

    NEVER open Windows in an airplane!

  7. What *REALLY* happened... by catdevnull · · Score: 5, Funny

    At about 4:30 a.m., the outsourced SysAdmin was setting up to do routine patches to Windows 2003 server nodes. But just before, he decided to check his e-mail with Outlook and he opened an important message from his system administrator advising him that his e-mail would be de-activated if he didn't open the important attachment. I think we all know what happened after that...

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  8. Re:Operating System (singular) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm an MBA. Would you please explain the joke?

  9. I found the root of the problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    There is a line of code that raised the problem but is commented in Punjabi, I think it says "fuck this $3/hour job".