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British Airways IT chaos was caused by human error
- rusanu 9y ago> a contractor doing maintenance work inadvertently switched off the power supply [...] This resulted in the total immediate loss of power to the facility, bypassing the backup generators and batteries... After a few minutes of this shutdown, it was turned back on in an unplanned and uncontrolled fashion, which created physical damage to the systems and significantly exacerbated the problem.
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