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Putting my tinfoil hat on for a moment... I wonder if there was a threat against the airline? Perhaps something enough to be credible but not so specific as t
by nlh 14y ago
Putting my tinfoil hat on for a moment...
I wonder if there was a threat against the airline? Perhaps something enough to be credible but not so specific as to be pinpointable, and rather than cause widespread panic by saying "ground every AA flight until we sort it out" (which would freak people out beyond belief), someone figured out that pulling the plug on their mainframe for a few hours would have the same result without the panic. Just some pissed off passengers.
Or maybe I've just been watching too much Homeland. Sigh.
- ryanmarsh 14y agoThat's just your paranoia. I wish I could speak more freely than I already have (see my other comments) but the fact is, crappy software, written by crappy contractors all tied to a 53 year old system of record.
- clueless123 14y agoNever ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. Hanlon's razor.
- jsight 14y agoAgreed... FWIW, I remember something similar happening to both US Airways and United Airlines within a few weeks of each other about 1.5 years ago.
- simcop2387 14y agoI can't find the article, but this isn't the first time that an airline has had a problem that grounded all of their flights. There was one in recent memory (last 20 years?) that had a bug where if there were more than 32k changes to the flights in a day it would cause a horrific crash in their system. They never hit it for so long, and then one day, boom all flights just disappeared.