“Some flights already had been canceled by early Thursday morning, an AirTran Airlines official told The Associated Press,” FOXNews.com reports. “The technical difficulties weren’t affecting air traffic control’s systems, according to Bergen.”
FOXNews.com reports, “Controllers ‘have radio coverage and communications with planes,’ she said.”
Full article here.
Ben Mutzabaugh blogs for USA Today, “CNN reports the FAA computer system affected by the malfunction is centered in Atlanta. ‘The system — the National Airspace Data Interchange Network, or NADIN — appears to be the same one that failed in August 2008. The FAA said flight plans are being processed through the network’s Salt Lake City, Utah office,’ CNN says on its website.”
“CBS Newsreporter Nancy Cordes has more on the subject via the CBS News website. CBS explains the NADIN ‘system is located in Atlanta and generates the flight plans for all flights on the East Coast,'” Mutzabaugh reports. “She says the glitch is forcing air traffic controllers in the already-congested New York City to space out planes by about 20 miles, instead of the normal eight miles.”
Mutzabaugh reports, “CBS adds ‘the practical ramifications of this problem are that the entire air traffic control system on the East Coast is slowed to about 40-50% of what a normal day would look like. Controllers must input flight data for each takeoff and landing manually.'”
Full article here.
The FAA’s flight tracker is here.
MacDailyNews Note: This is a developing story and we’ll add more info to this article as soon as we have it.
How is this Mac news? I was waiting for the line that said…..”Everything was fine until they recently upgraded to Windows 7……”
The Mac classic that is running the whole system crashed. finally.
This is a joke without a punchline.
This is not Mac news. At least you did not only listen to Australian news, and put a American news source in too.
There has been a replacement for this old as hell system for over a decade. However the airlines have fought it because they wanted private pilots to pay the same amount as them. This could end the ability of small start up airlines. Not to mention the mass retiring of air traffic controllers hired after the mass firing of ATC’s in the 80’s has also caused problems.
Lets hope common sence will prevail soon. It would be cool if Apple got the contract to replace the system. It would put that N.C. data center to some good use.
@WetFX…I agree. It would be interesting for Apple to put their touches on this antiquated system. However, I don’t think Apple has any vested interest in it though.
This is foxnews. Is this the new source for macdaily?
If FOXNews.com reported it than Obama must be to blame.
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@wyatt
Did you stop reading after seeing Fox News? CNN, USA Today and CBS were also quoted in the article.
@HMCIV
Stop bringing politics into a story that doesn’t have anything to do with it.
I smell Winblows afoot.
MDN has said this is a “developing” story. If MDN eventually states that the system is Windows based, it would be appropriate here. If it is Mac based (nope), it would be news here. If it is another system, some would like to know that anyway. MW: true
@Hg Wells
MDN should have waited until the OS was revealed before going with this story.
If I remember correctly this is an old IBM system that over promissed and under delivered(make your government health care jokes here) and has been continually suseptable to virus and trojan attacks.
You can google a history on it to find out for sure. Oh, and a computer glitch, is Mac news.
@ Gomer37
That’s a good one. Macs don’t run forever, just nearly so.
Written on my 5 year old PowerBook G4 that’s still going strong.
Is this a failure of the Operating System or the FAA software written to run on the OS?
This is news. But I’m just waiting for the punchline… Windows FAIL!
Wait for it.
“The FAA is implementing the Stratus servers, which use Intel Xeon 2.8 MHz large cache MP processors and support the Microsoft Windows operating system, at control centers in Atlanta and Salt Lake City. “
http://www.stratus.com/news/2005/20050314a.htm
What does this have to do with Apple. Is this another poke at MS?
As of now the ‘glitch’ has been overcome. But delays will linger, due to the tremendous usual traffic. But yeah, a nice “XServes would have been unaffected” will be forthcoming….
Perhaps MDN is assuming that many Mac and iPhone users are frequent flyers and should know about this.
But then they should have said such in their MDN Note.
Danish police put an apple system to use a few months ago; they said it meant massive savings and a system that did exactly what they wanted. I don’t have the link, but try searching.
@jocknerd
Nice work.
Somebody forgot to wind it up again………
when will the FAA learn… ?
they need to call apple, buy a mac mini and get the upgrade over with already!!
This has nothing to do with MS or Windows – it’s a failure of redundancy. Outdated infrastructure just like it is for every other type of transportation.
With such news, it would be interesting to read and know tabout he Apple Mac computer and iPhone policy and introduction in such companies.