The Federal Aviation Administration says a corrupt file brought down its flight plan IT network Tuesday, reports eWEEK.
The problem at its Atlanta facility soon caused its backup facility in Salt Lake City to be overwhelmed. More than 600 flights were delayed, affecting about 60,000 people at 40 airports during the 2 1/2-hour outage, reports The Associated Press in a story in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
The eWEEK story says the FAA hopes to limp along with the system until a replacement arrives this winter. It says the company that built the two 20-year-old redundant mainframes has been out of business for 20 years.
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