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FAA computer glitch resolved? LAX unaffected so far

FAA Flight delay map shortly before 1pm PDT

The computer problem that caused hundreds of flight delays across the country should be resolved in about an hour, a Federal Aviation Administration official said soon after 2 p.m. Pacific time today.

Hank Krakowski, chief operating officer for FAA’s air traffic organization, said the problem was unprecedented. “We’ve just never seen it fail in this manner,” he said. Hacking was not suspected as a cause.

“It looks like an internal software processing failure right now,” he said.

Laura Brown, spokeswoman for the FAA, said LAX had experienced no problems. Airports most affected were Boston, Midway (Chicago), O’Hare, Atlanta, Baltimore-Washington International and Charlotte, N.C.

Now, she said, “various cities around the country are getting back to normal,” Brown said.

The computer system in Atlanta that handles most of the flight-plan operation failed at about 10 a.m. Pacific time (1 p.m. Eastern time). The work was picked up by the processing center in Salt Lake City, which was swamped with the backlog.

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—Catharine Hamm, Times travel editor

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2 Comments on “FAA computer glitch resolved? LAX unaffected so far”

joe smoe Says:
August 26th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
the faa is incompetant.
John J. Tormey III, Esq. Says:
August 26th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
FAA has been screwing up continuously at least since Bobby Sturgell started working there as a protected legacy case in 2003. Sturgell is the acknowledged son of J. Edgar Hoover’s secretary Barbara Sturgell.

Regarding today’s events, the FAA purposefully crashed its own computer system to suppress the flight plans. On the heels of at least 3 separate U.S. plane crashes this past weekend - ten (10) dead in Moab Utah, three (3) dead in Las Vegas, and a guy grounding his plane on a baseball field in Texas - what’s clear is that the FAA’s air traffic control system is a total failure. Now FAA is engaging in spoliation of evidence, the electronic equivalent of some good ‘ol-fashioned Fawn Hall shredding, to delete incriminating material one step ahead of FBI and other criminal authorities who are once again right on FAA’s heels. FAA is a trailer-park criminal enterprise, and FAA Acting Administrator “Bobby” Sturgell must be relieved of his post NOW.

Regarding the 10 who died in Moab, Utah this past weekend: We pray for their families and mourn their loss. In their memory, this country needs to restore safety to our broken air traffic system. Future lives must be saved by repopulating FAA and ejecting Sturgell from office.

Quiet Rockland just published a hand-hewn list of over 1,200 FAA e-mail addresses on its website - and asks that you please consider using them for your own purposes:
http://ejectsturgell.blogspot.com

FAA’s e-mail address formula is fairly simple. The ‘minds’ of FAA management are even simpler.

This past weekend, FAA wanted America to “celebrate” FAA’s 50th Anniversary as fostering “the safest transportation system in the history of the world”. (Verbatim quote, FAA Acting Administrator Robert A. “Bobby” Sturgell, speech entitled “The Credit Goes To You”, Washington, D.C., August 21, 2008):
http://www.faa.gov/news/speeches/news_story.cfm?newsID=10274

FAA and failed Acting Administrator ‘Bobby’ Sturgell still persist in wanting you to believe that we are somehow in the ’safest period in aviation history’. As within the last few days, there are 10 more victimized innocent decedents in Moab, Utah whose souls will now testify exactly otherwise. Anyone who is outraged like me at the continuing criminal malfeasance of the Failed Aviation Agency, may consider voicing that outrage directly to the people that comprise that white-collar criminal ersatz federal agency acronymed as FAA, and directly to failed FAA Acting Administrator Bobby Sturgell.