Dublin Air Traffic Control Brought Down By Faulty NIC

Not so very long ago after passengers were left hanging by a similar glitch at LAX, Gilby4mPuck writes with another story of NIC failure leading to a disruption of air traffic, this time in Ireland, excerpting: "Data showing the location, height and speed of approaching planes disappeared from screens for 10 minutes each time. ... Thales ATM stated that in 10 similar air traffic control Centres worldwide with over 500,000 flight hours (50 years), this is the first time an incident of this type has been reported. ... '[They] confirmed the root cause of the hardware system malfunction as an intermittent malfunctioning network card which consequently overcame the built-in system redundancy,' said an IAA spokeswoman."

Comments

testing and QA

[hostyle]

Whatever happened to testing of installed hardware? You'd think they might csider that sort of thing important when it involves the lives of thousands of people. Then again, maybe they were drunk at the time.

The way the summary reads

[Centurix]

Makes it sound like the NIC was fighting against The Man! Go NIC!

Re:Last time

[HungryHobo]

we don't have a prime minister and I'm fairly sure customs don't wear green.

Re:Last time

[JohnHegarty]

Any I am not entirely sure what a Lucky Charm is ...