FAA outage reveals odd computing practices (AP)

WASHINGTON - When a computer glitch at a Federal Aviation Administration center caused widespread airline delays this week, it served as a reminder that the U.S. flight system is waiting for a modernizing overhaul. But it also appears the FAA's management of its existing technologies falls short of standards in other vital sectors.

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. Because the FAA relies on just two computing systems, one in Atlanta and one in Salt Lake City , to handle that chore for the entire nation, the software glitch all but sank the system Tuesday. The Salt Lake center remained up and served as a backup, but it became overloaded by information coming from airlines. More than 600 flights were delayed from Atlanta all the way to Boston and Chicago. A failure at the same Atlanta center caused major delays across the East Coast in June 2007.

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