Just In: US Airways Computer Systems Crash

Apparently the all of the computer systems for US Airways are currently offline.

From NYC Aviation:

US Airways’ computer system—including their website—reportedly crashed Friday evening, crippling the airline’s flight check-ins nationwide and leaving hundreds of flights and thousands of passengers grounded.

For more on this story read on.

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Could always be worse…

(Image used under CC from slideshow bob)

HT to Brian Honan

UPDATE: “US Airways tells us a data center power outage at a Phoenix data center has knocked out their airport and web-based computer systems.” < -so a power loss to ONE data center took out all of their computer systems? Holy hell.

Posted by Dave Lewis on June 10, 2011. Filed under Airline Security,Critical Infrastructure,Headlines. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.