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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 afd8856 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    WTF don't you get from the repeating of the joke? HINT: it's about redundancy.

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  2. Re:Operating System (singular) by britneys+9th+husband · · Score: 0, Redundant

    They knew about redundancy, but since they read Slashdot, they also know that Redundant is a -1 mod, and therefore redundancy is a bad thing.

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