CoffmanStarter
7th May 2014, 18:34
A very amusing little story in the Military Times :)
http://cmsimg.militarytimes.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=M6&Date=20140505&Category=NEWS04&ArtNo=305050035&Ref=AR&MaxW=640&Border=0&Air-Force-U-2-did-not-scramble-LAX-computers
Image Credit : The Military Times : USAF
“On April 30, 2014, an FAA air traffic system that processes flight plan information experienced problems while processing a flight plan filed for a USAF U-2 aircraft that operates at very high altitudes under visual flight rules,” a statement released Tuesday says. “The computer system interpreted the flight as a more typical low altitude operation, and began processing it for a route below 10,000 feet. The extensive number of routings that would have been required to de-conflict the aircraft with lower-altitude flights used a large amount of available memory and interrupted the computer's other flight-processing functions.”
More on the story here ...
Military Times : U2 Flight Plan Processing Crashes FAA Computer (http://www.militarytimes.com/article/20140506/NEWS/305060059/FAA-U-2-did-not-cause-LAX-control-center-computers-crash)
Military Times : Original News Story (http://www.militarytimes.com/article/20140505/NEWS04/305050035)
http://cmsimg.militarytimes.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=M6&Date=20140505&Category=NEWS04&ArtNo=305050035&Ref=AR&MaxW=640&Border=0&Air-Force-U-2-did-not-scramble-LAX-computers
Image Credit : The Military Times : USAF
“On April 30, 2014, an FAA air traffic system that processes flight plan information experienced problems while processing a flight plan filed for a USAF U-2 aircraft that operates at very high altitudes under visual flight rules,” a statement released Tuesday says. “The computer system interpreted the flight as a more typical low altitude operation, and began processing it for a route below 10,000 feet. The extensive number of routings that would have been required to de-conflict the aircraft with lower-altitude flights used a large amount of available memory and interrupted the computer's other flight-processing functions.”
More on the story here ...
Military Times : U2 Flight Plan Processing Crashes FAA Computer (http://www.militarytimes.com/article/20140506/NEWS/305060059/FAA-U-2-did-not-cause-LAX-control-center-computers-crash)
Military Times : Original News Story (http://www.militarytimes.com/article/20140505/NEWS04/305050035)