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Database Glitch Grounds American/US Airways

Posted by timothy on Sunday August 1, 2004 @05:22AM 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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Operating System (singular) by Hypharse · 2004-08-01 05:29 · Score: 5, Insightful

"The operating system that drives the airline's flight plans went down."
How in the world can they state that as singular. Surely they have a backup of some sort. Especially with all the supposed "increased security" around air flight, you are telling me that one system crash can knock out half of the major airlines? That's ridiculous. Have they not learned about redundancy?