United Airlines experiences nationwide system outage

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https://www.localmemphis.com/mobile/article/news/nation-world/united-airlines-system-wide-outage-friday/507-fb072b49-1dec-4e08-979e-8b7109bcdfb9

United Airlines briefly issued a ground stop on all its flights Friday morning in the U.S. and Canada amid a system outage, according to the FAA website.

WASHINGTON — United Airlines suffered a brief system outage Friday that caused frustration for travelers and temporarily grounded the airline's flights nationwide.

The airline briefly issued a ground stop for less than an hour on all its flights in the United States and Canada Friday morning, according to the Federal Aviation Administration website. The ground stop order was lifted before 8 a.m. at the airline's request, according the FAA advisory.

More at link.

[Champp]

1. Could the Republican's intimate Russian cronies be behind this?

Sound like it could be their usual evil shit.

[Ocelot II]

2. Not likely; it was probably an internal computer problem.

Years ago I was working for an airline and something like that happened when the computer system that manages the fuel and weight and balance calculations for dispatching airplanes failed, for reasons that I don't remember now (something to do with a power outage and a backup failure, I think). No flights could be released for several hours and it really screwed things up for at least a day. But this kind of shit does happen without any external interference.

[getagrip_already]

4. I remember sitting at a gate for a few hours on that one.....

or a similar one. Because they couldn't print the plane manifests, the planes couldn't fly. The crews could do their own weight calculations, but they needed the manifests to fly.

That wasn't such an innocent outage as I recall. It had something to do with a corrupted supplier code update that was never really explained.

But, on with the show.

[Ocelot II]

5. That must have been a different outage.

I recall there have been several at different airlines over the years. Ours had to do with a backup system that crashed during a power outage, never happened again. It was this one, in 2004: https://www.upi.com/Archives/2004/07/14/Northwest-outage-creates-flight-logjam/2431089777600/

[getagrip_already]

6. Yup, the one I'm thinking of was in the teens.... n/t

[getagrip_already]

3. rumors on the street...

Little birdies are chirping that UAL has been suffering a string of cyber attacks, Some seem to be causing limited outages.

All rumor. They will surely deny it, and could quite conceivably be right.

But these sounds have certain ring to them....