FAA Computer Glitch Causes Widespread Airline Delays

seven of five writes with this excerpt from an Associated Press report: "A problem with the FAA system that collects airlines' flight plans caused widespread flight cancellations and delays nationwide Thursday. It was the second time in 15 months that a glitch in the flight plan system caused delays. The FAA said in a statement that it is having a problem processing flight plan information. 'We are investigating the cause of the problem,' the agency said. 'We are processing flight plans manually and expect some delays. We have radar coverage and communications with planes.'"

Comments

Re:problems?

[hesaigo999ca]

Not if it causes 2 plains to crash together in mid flight and kill 487 people, it's not.
Unless you want to be 1 amongst the 487!
Software for this industry or the car or even medical has no room for glitches....
when your heart monitor glitches out and sends a shock to your heart triggering a heart attack, I would like to hear you say, it was acceptable seeing as it didn't have AS many bugs as let's say windows.

Thanks to M$ and the like, we have grown accustomed to accepting certain levels of errors in software,
while I would like to be able to say I accept no bugs in my software, what about you?

Re:Hmm could it be a windows problem? - of course!

[poetmatt]

so this deployment presumably has been done, or is to be done? It looks like they're not doing a whole lot of improvement as I see:

The FAA is implementing the Stratus servers, which use Intel Xeon 2.8 MHz large cache MP processors and support the Microsoft Windows operating system, at control centers in Atlanta and Salt Lake City.

I don't suppose today's glitch is a lesson in migrating to linux servers?

glitch in Obama's healthcare con

[czarangelus]

Glitch in Central led to Tuttle^w Buttle being injected with Toradol, which resulted in severe gastrointestinal hemorage ultimately leading to death due to his warfarin medication.

Hooray for more Imperial competence!