United Airlines Passengers Stranded By Computer Outage

From reader Peter McDermott comes word of a computer outage with effects to dwarf those of the one that stranded thousands of US Airways passengers last week. This time, it's United Airlines' systems that are out of commission and unable to handle passenger reservations, leaving passengers stranded all over the U.S. According to Peter, experiencing the resultant delays first-hand at Dulles Airport near Washington, D.C., United planes are being sent on — along with their passengers' luggage — to the cities from which they're to leave tomorrow morning, in anticipation of the computer system being fixed in the interim.

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Re:US Airways last week, now United?

[Sulphur]

At what point do you stop thinking of this as a glitch and start thinking of it as an attack?

And if it is a cause of war, then how are you sure you were not spoofed?