> From the system's POV maybe this is the right way to resolve the problem. Could masking the failure by obscuring this flight's waypoint problem have resulted

> From the system's POV maybe this is the right way to resolve the problem. Could masking the failure by obscuring this flight's waypoint problem have resulted in a potentially conflicting flight not being tracked among other flights? If so, maybe it's truly urgent enough to bring down the system and force the humans to resolve the discrepancy. Flagging the error is absolutely the right way to go. It should have rejected the flight plan, however. There could be issues if the flight was allowed to proceed and you now have an aircraft you didn't expect showing up. Crashing is not the way to handle it.