Error During Routine Testing Grounded United Planes
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An error during routine system testing of United's computer system was the preliminary root cause of yesterday's Computer failure.
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Due to a reporting error, the story, "United planes downed by computer glitch" posted Wednesday did not provide the full name of the Las Vegas McCarran International Airport. The story has been changed on the wire and paragraph five now reads:
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A Boeing Co. interceptor missile failed to launch during a test of the US ground-based missile-defense system today because of an ``unknown anomaly,&#39;&#39; the US Missile Defense Agency said.
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Airline flights to and from airports within a huge swath of the southwestern United States were grounded for several hours Tuesday when the region&#39;s radio and radar system broke down, according to a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman.
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The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has officially blamed pilot error for the crash of an American Airlines Airbus A-300 in New York in November 2001 that left 265 people dead.
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A United Airlines computer malfunction halted all departures systemwide for two hours Wednesday, the carrier said.
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NASA&#39;s attempt to break world speed records with its X-43A scramjet test plane was postponed on Monday due to concerns over faulty instrumentation.
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The FAA says its failure to do routine maintenance caused the shutdown of a critical air traffic communications system that delayed dozens of flights in the Bay Area.
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The Missile Defense Agency announced today it was unable to complete a planned flight test after the interceptor missile experienced an anomaly shortly before it was to be launched from the Ronald Reagan Test Site, Republic of the Marshall Islands, in the
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FORT WORTH, Texas _ The fleet of 54 V-22 Osprey aircraft used by the Marines and Air Force was grounded this week after a faulty computer chip was discovered in flight-control computers.
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HALIFAX (CP) - At least eight flights were grounded and hundreds of passengers inconvenienced after a man carrying a bag slipped through security at Halifax International Airport without being properly checked Monday.
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The Canadian company said it recommended that Q400 aircraft with more than 10,000 landing gear cycles be grounded after two crashes involving landing gear.
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Flights at Heathrow airport are delayed after a passenger jet lands short of the runway.
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United Airlines, a unit of UAL Corp., on Wednesday said it was suffering "residual delays" some three hours after resolving a system-wide, computer failure that grounded its flights around the world.
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About 1,100 flights of regional U.S.  air carrier Comair were grounded on Christmas Day by a computer  glitch that threatens to keep the airline on a limited schedule  for some days, a spokeswoman for its parent company said on  Saturday.
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Some airports in California are grounding departing flights because of a radio failure at the Federal Aviation Administration Control Facility.
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A plane's tyres burst on landing at Leeds Bradford Airport because of an error by the pilot, a report shows.