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American Airlines grounding flights.
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Posted on 04/16/2013 12:23:46 PM PDT by gop4lyf

A buddy of mine works at AA headquarters and he says that they are freaking out there over a outage in the reservation system. He says that they are grounding all flights globally. They can't figure out what's wrong and suspect it may be cyber terrorism.


TOPICS: Breaking News
KEYWORDS: americanairlines; cyberterrorism; flightsgrounded
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To: Red Badger
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.....Robert Heinlein......

Heinlein never met Bronco Bama

41 posted on 04/16/2013 1:31:37 PM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of oppression and Democrats use them. Gun confiscation enables tyranny.)
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To: alphadoggie
"Air Canada had a similar problem last year. I spent a night sleeping on the floor in Toronto Pearson Airport. Not fun."

At least it was Toronto!

I don't know what I mean by that but I just had to post it anyway!

42 posted on 04/16/2013 1:31:38 PM PDT by hummingbird (So much conspiracy and not enough time.)
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To: gop4lyf

Just boarding my flight now at DFW after a 2.5 hour delay.


43 posted on 04/16/2013 1:31:42 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
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To: Cold Heart

As you say...


44 posted on 04/16/2013 1:33:55 PM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of oppression and Democrats use them. Gun confiscation enables tyranny.)
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To: tflabo
Hope things go smoothly for you.((((Hugs))))
45 posted on 04/16/2013 1:38:46 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: TSgt

“It’s better to shut it down elegantly rather than have it fail spectacularly”

I would think that an airline would base their system on Erlang, which is a language that can route around network problems and allows hot upgrades with no downtime. It was developed by Ericcson for cell phone networks.

“It was designed by Ericsson to support distributed, fault-tolerant, soft-real-time, non-stop applications. It supports hot swapping, so that code can be changed without stopping a system.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_%28programming_language%29


46 posted on 04/16/2013 1:38:48 PM PDT by PastorBooks
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To: gop4lyf

Very simple, in an effort to merge US Airways system with AA, they found out why you never mix matter with anti-matter.

US Airways should have been run out of business years ago. I flew an average of 120+ flights a year for over 20 years and by far they are the lowest of the low lives.


47 posted on 04/16/2013 1:39:07 PM PDT by Wurlitzer (Nothing says "ignorance" like Islam!)
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To: gop4lyf

Maybe someone plugged an Ethernet switch in to the system.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3008590/posts


48 posted on 04/16/2013 1:46:07 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
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To: I cannot think of a name

Your comment is one of the reasons I need this site...I need a laugh somewhere amongst all the gloom and doom and you have provided.

Thank you!


49 posted on 04/16/2013 2:01:19 PM PDT by kevslisababy
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To: dfwgator

I hate when that happens! We need an edit function.

:>)


50 posted on 04/16/2013 2:02:13 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Happy to be represented by Lt. Col. Allen West)
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To: PastorBooks

Just because the language supports something doesn’t mean the software written in it does. One changing of a database table without somebody bothering to ask “what’s the new code going to think of the old data, and what’s old code going to think of the new data” and your hot swap just exploded in your face.


51 posted on 04/16/2013 2:04:10 PM PDT by discostu (Not just another moon faced assassin of joy.)
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To: I cannot think of a name
.. first passenger service improvement in more than a decade

             

52 posted on 04/16/2013 2:23:43 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: I cannot think of a name

And you think they are going to let those passengers off of those grounded flights—ha!


53 posted on 04/16/2013 2:24:10 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: gop4lyf
Y2K

Or possibly Y10K, but a little early.

54 posted on 04/16/2013 7:52:18 PM PDT by willgolfforfood
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