News Upqrade glitch causes airport chaos

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  1. GreatOldOne

    GreatOldOne Wannabe Martian

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    Oops. This from ZDNet:

    Overnight testing of software management procedures has caused massive disruption to the UK National Air Traffic Control system and led to widespread delays at most of Britain's airports.

    A spokesman for the UK's National Air Traffic Services, the company that controls UK airpsace, told ZDNet UK that the Flight Data Processing System (FDPS) at the West Drayton control centre crashed after overnight testing. As a result, information about flights entering controlled airspace had to be input into the rest of the ATC system by hand, resulting in a drastic reduction of capacity and a temporary ban on take-offs.

    More here
     
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  2. Fly

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    Oops...

    :eeek:

    I guess I'm in for a busy shift tonight.
     
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  3. DeX

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    Arg, this must be why my mum is stuck in Edinburgh :(....
     
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  4. dr_crazy

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    on the news this morn i was told the test was at 6am, the supposed "rush hour" of air traffic.

    Wouldsn't logic tell you that if this is a busy period, then this is not the time to do a test incase it crashes?

    Luckily it was supposedly sorted by 8am, but there's still a backlog. This isn't the first time this has happened either with the implementation of this new system.
     
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  5. Fly

    Fly inter arma silent leges

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    There you go, straight from my intranet.
     
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  6. dr_crazy

    dr_crazy What's a Dremel?

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    hmm.... gonna have to watch the news again cause im sure it said that there had been some problem b4 last year, but thanks for the post fly!
     
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  7. Rain

    Rain What's a Dremel?

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    I am shocked :jawdrop:

    A news report about a crash & not a Micro$oft pun in sight :D
     
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  8. GreatOldOne

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    That's because it's much, much worse than M$ - it's a large, Government Backed Public Sector IT project [SHIVER] :D
     
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  9. daniel_owen_uk

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    Wants to be all clear by tomorrow, going on holiday for the week :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
     
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