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Half of European Flights Delayed Due To System Failure (bbc.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the whoopsie-daisy dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: The organization responsible for co-ordinating European air traffic says it has fixed an earlier fault which led to widespread flight delays. Eurocontrol earlier said that delays could affect up to half of all flights in Europe -- about 15,000 trips. It said the faulty system was restarted at 19:00 GMT, and normal operations had resumed. Tuesday's fault was only the second failure in 20 years, Eurocontrol said -- the last happened in 2001. The unspecified problem was with the Enhanced Tactical Flow Management System, which helps to manage air traffic by comparing demand and capacity of different air traffic control sectors. It manages up to 36,000 flights a day. Some 29,500 were scheduled on Tuesday when the fault occurred. When the system failed, Eurocontrol's contingency plan for a failure in the system deliberately reduced the capacity of the entire European network by 10%. It also added what it calls "predetermined departure intervals" at major airports.

12 comments

  1. Thoughts and prayers by 110010001000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thoughts and prayers to those affected.

    1. Re:Thoughts and prayers by Dirk+Becher · · Score: 1

      What about the familys of the culprits you insensitive clod!!

    2. Re: Thoughts and prayers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Stuck in Frankfurt with hordes of shitty sand n1ggers all around on their way to infest stupid Europe and Britostan. This is intolerable.

    3. Re: Thoughts and prayers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So the authorities are finally letting you out of the refugee camp? Which country will you bless with the magnificence of your benevolent compassion?

  2. So... rebooting fixed the problem? by Spy+Handler · · Score: 1

    It said the faulty system was restarted at 19:00 GMT, and normal operations had resumed.

    Must be a Windows system.

    1. Re:So... rebooting fixed the problem? by mridoni · · Score: 4, Funny

      Not likely, since apparently the last time it needed to be rebooted was 20 years ago.

    2. Re:So... rebooting fixed the problem? by kzwork · · Score: 0

      Time to upgrade Linux kernel from 2.6 to 4.15

    3. Re:So... rebooting fixed the problem? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      ...or not:

      * https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/the-2-6-32-linux-kernel/
      * http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/longterm-proposal-08-2011.html
      * https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122375909403298

      The 2.6.x series is still actively and heavily used in a commercial embedded router sector (ex. Asus, Netgear, Tenda, Linksys (now Foxxcon, was Cisco/Linksys), Huawei). Broadcom is still maintaining/updating wireless binary blob drivers for 2.6.22 and 2.6.36, both for MIPSr1/MIPSr2 and ARM/ARM7 archs.

    4. Re:So... rebooting fixed the problem? by Hognoxious · · Score: 1

      Don't forget to check for missing unit files.

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    5. Re:So... rebooting fixed the problem? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Must be a Windows system.

      Didn't they say "flights delayed due to Systemd failure"?

      Windows with systemd - the worst of both worlds.

  3. Contingency Conschmingency by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I'll microservice that for you ðYZ

  4. That's a lot of cryptocurrency mining by mnemotronic · · Score: 1

    Somebody repurposed the ETFMS (Enhanced Tactical Flow Management System) for use as an Ethereum Transaction Free Mining System.

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