Alaska Airlines Ground Stop

[atakacs]

Anyone with more details ?

[TURIN]

24th April 2017?

[GrazingIncidence]

Originally Posted by TURIN

24th April 2017?

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And maybe an overnight ‘dead easy’ software update wasn’t as ‘dead easy’ as hoped!

[BFSGrad]

Lifted. Lasted about an hour. As I recall, this is not the first ASA ground stop due to sketchy W&B software.

[magyar_flyer]

Alaska Air resumed departures around noon after an hour-long ground stop for all departure flights nationwide. According to The Wall Street Journal the ground stop was due to a "technology problem that cropped up during a system upgrade."

[BFSGrad]

Referencing my post #4, on 1/26/23, Alaska Airlines imposed a 22 minute ground stop due to faulty aircraft performance software. The faulty software resulted in two 737 tail strikes departing KSEA for Hawaii.

[MechEngr]

Whose faulty software did that?

[BFSGrad]

At the time of the 2023 tail strike events:

“Alaska Airlines uses software from a company named DynamicSource to make aircraft performance calculations.”