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They aren't that rare. Last UK ATC crash was in 2014 I think: https://www.ft.com/content/65544730-8216-11e4-b9d0-00144feabdc0 https://www.ft.com/content/655447

They aren't that rare. Last UK ATC crash was in 2014 I think: https://www.ft.com/content/65544730-8216-11e4-b9d0-00144feabdc0 https://www.ft.com/content/65544730-8216-11e4-b9d0-00144feab... And that's just the UK. Airport systems crashing is a regular occurrence. Paris crashed due to still relying on a Windows 3.1 system: https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-23-year-old-windows-3-1-system-failure-crashed-paris-airport/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-23-year-old-windows-3-1-syst... The IT is just poor. Tech firms routinely change much more massive and complex systems at a far faster pace compared to the stagnation found in airline IT, and yet total failures are not more frequent.

jacquesm 3y ago
If it makes the news it is almost by definition rare.
- Dfiesl 3y ago
  Im not sure that's true. If something makes the news it's likely to be of interest to a large amount of people, that doesn't immediately qualify it as something rare.
- theolivenbaum 3y ago
  Musk's foolish actions while owner of Twitter are not rare yet always on the news
N19PEDL2 3y ago
Not to forget the failure of Frankfurt airport systems earlier this year due to the breakage of a single glass-fibre cable: https://www.dw.com/en/lufthansa-system-failure-causes-massive-travel-chaos/a-64705780 https://www.dw.com/en/lufthansa-system-failure-causes-massiv... Though this is not due to outdated IT, but lack of redundancy of a critical component of the system instead.