The appropriate thing to do was to reject the flight plan (remember, the flight plan is processed before the flight starts, and anyways there were hours over U.

The appropriate thing to do was to reject the flight plan (remember, the flight plan is processed before the flight starts, and anyways there were hours over U.S. in which the flight could have been diverted if manual resolution was not possible), not to let the flight continue with the apparent discontinuity, nor to shutdown the whole system.