Technical issue briefly grounds American Airlines flights across US A technical snafu briefly grounded American Airlines flights across the US on Christmas Eve. American Airlines tells The Register that the technology issue impacted systems necessary for flight releases. In response, the FAA reports that the airline requested a nationwide stop order, which began around 1150 UTC and lasted …
"most modern cars are just a computer on wheels."
And one day it's going to bite us... hard.
I see the day when one of the country backed cybercriminal gang will find it's way into the OTA networks used by the various vehicle manufacturer and brick cars/trucks/buses all around.
I could give details (on how it could happens)... But that would be givng away important network architecture structures that could be used for bad purpose.
Obviously they all uses Mobile Telecom Core Infrastructure as a Service...
A system wide meltdown like this would seem to merit a notice on the AA app but no. I kept checking this morning and nary a whisper about how none of their flights were actually taking off. You could check individual flight status and see that they were delayed, but you really had to be in the airport with the monitors there to know that it wasn't just that your individual flight that was delayed.
Someone there is probably desperate to say what really happened. They'll have been told to keep quiet. However, when you insult your engineers, doesn't want to make them keep quiet. Remember that when info is leaked, it most always is because you're treating your staff like shit.
At the time of writing, Santa is up in the air and delivering presents.
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Montevideo, Uruguay
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No reports of any issues, vendor or otherwise.
"American Airlines didn't address El Reg's questions as to whether resolving the issue could result in additional delays or disruptions over the holiday season."
Perhaps they ignored your question because they thought it was a bit dimwitted. Why would any 21st century American not know damn well that a system wide outage on Christmas Eve of a major airline for more than a few minutes is going to cause delays and disruptions over the holiday season?
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