Lufthansa hit by computer glitch
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Lufthansa had to cancel about 60 European flights, and its services around the world were delayed following a computer fault in its check-in system on Thursday, the German airline said.
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ROYAL OAK, Mich., Jan. 30  /PRNewswire/ -- In a storyline reminiscent of Y2K, there is a little-known glitch on the way that could soon confound computer systems across the United States.
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The glitch, which could permit an attacker to secretly search the contents of a personal computer via the Internet, is the kind of flaw that emerges when separate components interact.
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A faulty control cable caused the glitch that subjected two Russian cosmonauts and Malaysia's first space traveler to a rough trip back to Earth, according to a report Tuesday.
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(InfoWorld) - United Airlines was forced to scrap 24 domestic flights Wednesday when the computers it uses to dispatch flights failed. The outage occurred between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. Central Time, causing delays across the country. In total, about 268 domestic and international flights were delayed, United said. The average delay time was an hour and a half. "We continue to work hard to resume operations by tomorrow morning and kindly ask for our customers' patience," the airline carrier said in a statement. United does not know what caused the outage but said that it "affected the systems that United uses to dispatch flights for departure." The glitch delayed five United flights at Las Vegas International Airport, said Richard Viera, general manager of United operations there. "We had a system outage, and we worked with local people from United along with people from headquarters," said Viera. The outage disrupted operations for about one-and-a-half hours, but no flights were cancelled, and Viera had no complaints from Las Vegas passengers. "It went pretty well," he said. By late afternoon, United flights were moving on time in Las Vegas. This is the second time this month that a computer malfunction has caused significant delays in the U.S. On June 8, one of the two systems used by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to manage flight plans failed, causing flight delays and cancellations across the country.
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A Lufthansa airplane flying from Turkey to Germany safely made an emergency landing Sunday in Budapest after an anonymous bomb threat was received, police said.
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A trans-atlantic flight from London to Boston had to make an emergency diversion after one passenger made an unexpected early arrival.
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Mechanical failure 'unthinkable' Experts have suggested that the simultaneous failure of both engines of the BA 777 which last week crash-landed at Heathrow must have been caused by a computer glitch, the Times reports.â¦
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A flight from Chicago to New York City was diverted Tuesday night because of an unspecified security concern, authorities said.
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The failure on Friday of a computer system used to help track airplanes flying across the U.S. led to delays and cancelled flights -- and federal officials still aren't sure what went wrong.
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A computer glitch at a flight information processing center this morning is delaying flights across the eastern seaboard, according to reports from the Federal Aviation Administration.
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Hundreds of All Nippon Airways flights were cancelled or delayed Sunday because of computer error.
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United was forced to cancel 24 flights and delay hundreds more following a computer glitch.
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A glitch at U.S. Airways yesterday affected self-serve kiosks used by about two-thirds of the airlines' customers, causing long lines and delays that affected air travel even today.
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Airports across Germany were braced for further chaos from midnight yesterday after pay talks between management and pilots at the country's main airline Lufthansa broke down.
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As you spring forward this year, brace yourself for a software glitch that could affect computers, digital watches and clocks. By the Associated Press.
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LARNACA, Cyprus : A Lufthansa flight en route to Israel landed at Larnaca airport in Cyprus after receiving a bomb alert that subsequent investigations said were not serious.