If your having a bad day at work, remember you could be the engineer who allegedly accidently cancelled thousands of flights in the US this week after they ‘replaced the wrong file’ 🤦♂️
Weary travellers wait for news at Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday
The Federal Aviation Administration ) said on Wednesday that preliminary indications ‘traced the outage to a damaged database file’.more than 9,000 flights were delayed and more than 1,300 cancelled throughout the day.Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg told a news conference that the problems ‘led to a ground stop because of the way safety information was moving through the system’.
‘I’ve been flying 53 years. I’ve never heard the system go down like this,’ he said. ‘So something unusual happened.’ Wednesday was the latest headache for travellers in the US, who faced an even larger number of flight cancellations over the Christmas holiday due to a severe winter storm and a breakdown in crew-scheduling technology at Southwest Airlines.
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