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Just when you thought public relations couldn't get any worse for airlines, a communication breakdown is keeping airplanes grounded across the country.

According to the Federal Aviation Administration, a Hampton, Georgia-based flight-plan-processing facility suffered a failure causing flight delays across the US.

An FAA spokesperson told the AP that there are no safety issues to speak of, however, and pilots are still able to communicate with ground control.

The breakdown at the Georgia Facility had led to a backlog at a Salt Lake City-based facility, when it was tasked with handling the East Coast flights dropped by the former.

The FAA has a map of delay times, which can be found here. At the moment, all of the listed airports fall under the "Traffic destined to this airport is being delayed at its departure point. Check your departure airport to see if your flight may be affected" category.

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Posted by: Jen
August 26, 2008 5:18 PM

The NADIN uses a Microsoft Windows based operating system. Why not use a more stable OS like UNIX, which the FAA uses in quite a few of the other systems?


Posted by: Thomas
August 26, 2008 5:24 PM

It runs Windows? This lends way new meaning to "blue screen of death"!


Posted by: Darryl
August 26, 2008 5:45 PM

Who said it has anything to do with Windows? The article said a "communication breakdown", not crashed systems. For all we know, communication lines could have been severed or carrier equipment failed.

Everyone is so quick to blame Microsoft/Windows for everything.


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