Corrupt file causes FAA to halt all flights

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Sometimes I forget that society is pretty much held together by duct tape and prayers made by some software engineer who doesn't care enough to review or delete corrupt files that made its way onto prod.

You want to talk about impact as an engineer? Have you ever grounded all the planes in the US?

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/faa-ground-stop-causes/index.html

linuxftw · Accepted Answer

"When air traffic control officials realized they had a computer issue late Tuesday, they came up with a plan, the source said, to reboot the system"

Lmao, the way they solved it was by turning it off and then turning it on again 😂

craigneel · Answer

don't believe whatever they say in the news!

Chiron · Answer

I just love that they went back to pen and paper notices 😂 brilliant recovery planning America.

TBird · Answer

All I can say is, I think we’ve more than got our taxes worth of service out of this old system. Problem is though that now that it’s known what happened I’ll bet they’ll modify their protocols and we’ll be continuing to use this another 20 years w/o change.

benjidunlow · Answer

This whole time I’m thinking who’s the evil PM that dreamt this up

Westside313 · Answer

My wife is on a plane now to Thailand as we speak. This is scary as hell. Smh

Corrupt file causes FAA to halt all flights

A corrupt file led to the FAA ground stoppage. It was also found in the backup system

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