Half of European flights delayed due to system failure
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Re: Half of European flights delayed due to system failure
#2Url changed from https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/3/17193814/eu-eurocontrol-br..., which points to this.
Re: Half of European flights delayed due to system failure
#3Just like there are no bugs without security impact, is it real to say that this has no impact on flight security? Any error can be a contributing factor.
Re: Half of European flights delayed due to system failure
#4Just like there are no bugs without security impact, is it real to say that this has no impact on flight security? Any error can be a contributing factor.
Similar to every incident at a nuclear power plant. "no danger for the population"
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#5I fear this sort of thing is going to become more and more common at airports.
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#6I fear this sort of thing is going to become more and more common at airports.
Why?
Sure, the skies are more and more crowded, meaning more and more people will be affected by a once-in-20 year failure, but why would it happen more and more common?
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#7> Eurocontrol announced the system restart later in the day, after what it called extensive testing.
So they turned it off and on again.
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#8"departures are now limited to 10/hour at #brusselsairport"
Impressive that they maintain this rhythm even during a once-in-a-decade unexpected system malfunction.
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#9I fear this sort of thing is going to become more and more common at airports.
Why? Sure, the skies are more and more crowded, meaning more and more people will be affected by a once-in-20 year failure, but why would it happen more and more common?
Well the archaic systems are getting older and older. From what I've heard it's almost impossible to get replacement parts for some of the computer systems that run airports/airlines.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why? Sure, the skies are more and more crowded, meaning more and more people will be affected by a once-in-20 year failure, but why would it happen more and more common?
Well the archaic systems are getting older and older. From what I've heard it's almost impossible to get replacement parts for some of the computer systems that run airports/airlines.
And on the other hand, there are massive requirements at all levels for this kind of software.
I'm not sure what the right answer is at that point. From dev-experience, I wouldn't want half-assed software directing flights. From ops-experience, I don't want software directing flights requiring specific hardware so you can just replace the hardware with easily available hardware.