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FAA Alert: United delays all flights nationwide due to ‘equipment outage’
The FAA alert says the airline requested that all flights be held at their departure airports—known as a ground stop—until 2 p.m. EDT. The agency did not elaborate, referring questions to United. “We are experiencing a systemwide technology issue and are holding all aircraft at their departure airports,” (www.cnn.com) More...
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Smells like yet another mission-critical system with single-point failure modes.
The technology to design redundant, fail-safe and fault-tolerant systems has been around for 50 years. And yes, it's more expensive. With that said, anyone want to guess what this outage cost United?
The technology to design redundant, fail-safe and fault-tolerant systems has been around for 50 years. And yes, it's more expensive. With that said, anyone want to guess what this outage cost United?
Read my post below. “flights unable to connect w/ dispatch by normal methods “. The incident happened on the Tuesday following a USA Labor Day holiday.
I would speculate this happened due to rollout of a complex multilayer software modification. They were lucky it only took 2 hours to modify or rollback.
I would speculate this happened due to rollout of a complex multilayer software modification. They were lucky it only took 2 hours to modify or rollback.
Or someone pushed an untested network modification.
Does anybody remember the 'untied.com' website? Way back when a disgruntled passenger grabbed the domain that's a common misspelling of 'united.com' by the fat-fingered and dyslexic. Of course, I discovered it by just such an accident. Good times. It still exists but returns what is basically an empty page.
Seems that, due to an erroneous software update, " The airline’s flights were unable to connect to dispatch through normal methods " Source : a Wall Street Journal report
Remember that your lives are in the hands of cheap electronic components made by slave labour overseas. And the software is written by people who work in a tiny cubical and live off donuts and coffee.