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US flights suffer delays after glitch | | 2008/08/28 | | Flights leaving Atlanta in the southern state of Georgia were subject to severe delays recently after a glitch prevented flight plans from being processed at a facility in the area.
The delays were exacerbated by severe thunderstorms over the region but some cities such as New York were largely unaffected by the technical breakdown while much of the rest of the country experienced difficulties.
Spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Diane Spitalire said that the computer glitch had caused the most severe problems she'd ever had to deal with, Breaking Travel News reports.
She said: "We've had some equipment failures but not like this."
The FAA was adamant that the glitch did not present any problems tracking airborne planes and that things would be resolved by the following evening.
Chief operations officer for the FAA's air traffic division Hank Krakowski said: "It looks like we're slowly starting to dig out of this."
Officials at the FAA were unable to say how many flights had been delayed and reassured that hacking or terrorism had been ruled out, blaming instead an internal software processing problem which caused the failure of a communications link. |
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