US Air Traffic Computer Says NO !
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US Air Traffic Computer Says NO !
A very amusing little story in the Military Times 
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Military Times : U2 Flight Plan Processing Crashes FAA Computer
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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.
Military Times : U2 Flight Plan Processing Crashes FAA Computer
Military Times : Original News Story
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It's an odd, or rather an incomplete explanation. If any aircraft was registered by the system at an incorrect level it would generate a large number of conflictions. Just a coincidence it should happen to be a U2 ??
