Did FAA Glitch status Causes Airline Delays at Atlanta based Delta Airlines?
A computer glitch that caused flight cancellations and delays across the U.S. Thursday has been resolved, the Federal Aviation Administration said, but it was unclear how long flights would be affected. Many of the nation’s airports weren’t encountering departure delays as of early afternoon, according to the FAA’s air-traffic command center. But major delays were reported in Washington, New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. The problem involved FAA computer systems in Salt Lake City and Atlanta that handle automated flight plans, forcing air-traffic controllers to revert to the much more time-consuming approach of entering flight plans by hand. That produced a “domino effect” delaying flights around the country, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association said. Spokesman Doug Church said controllers were entering flight plans manually in some locations even after the glitch was fixed. The FAA system is a major, cutting-edge program full of redundancies that are designed to keep it
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_bi_ge/us_flight_delays FAA glitch causes widespread US air travel delays By HARRY R. WEBER, AP Airlines Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Air travelers nationwide scrambled to revise their plans Thursday after an FAA computer glitch caused widespread cancellations and delays for the second time in 15 months. The Federal Aviation Administration said the problem, which lasted about four hours, was fixed around 9 a.m., but it was unclear how long flights would be affected. It started when a single circuit board in a piece of networking equipment at a computer center in Salt Lake City failed around 5 a.m., the FAA said in a statement. That failure prevented air traffic control computers in different parts of the country from talking to each other. Air traffic controllers were forced to type in complicated flight plans themselves because they could not be transferred
Associated Press Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines Inc., the largest US airline by traffic, said it was experiencing some delays but continued to dispatch … Sources: http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_0_0_t&usg=AFQjCNFrP6cOMrnAKGpvdrSmWpsL2ZOl0A&sig2=w3I814IjmN3ZInyNU2Lsqw&cid=1473839889&ei=h5EFS-iqHpP48QTpmMtL&rt=SEARCH&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB125863837097855555.
