Deep dive into the UK air traffic control meltdown

Re:Deep dive into the UK air traffic control meltdown by samus on Monday September 11, 2023 @02:46PM (#37471817)

It was in a bad state, but in a very inane way: a flight plan in its processing queue was faulty. The system itself was mostly fine. It was just not well-written enough to distinguish an input error from an internal error, and thus didn't just skip the faulty flight plan.

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Re:Deep dive into the UK air traffic control meltdown by Twirrim on Monday September 11, 2023 @03:09PM (#37472187)

at the risk of nitpicking: "a flight plan in its processing queue was faulty" isn't true, the flight plan was fine. It couldn't process it.

I mention this only because the Daily Mail headline pissed me off with it's usual bullshit foreigner fear mongering crap.

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Re:Deep dive into the UK air traffic control meltdown by samus on Monday September 11, 2023 @03:25PM (#37472427)

Indeed, that intention is quite transparent in this case. Anyways, I suspect that invalid input exists that would have made the system react in a similar way

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