Flight-Assignment Program Forced Comair Out Of Sky
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The regional airline says severe winter weather &quot;stressed&quot; its flight-assignment application, causing it to crash. By Jim Nash.
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A computer glitch at Delta Air Lines&#39; regional carrier Comair that stranded thousands of travelers over the Christmas weekend was largely due to a system that was old and operating beyond capacity, a source familiar with the system said on Tuesday.
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Days of bad weather, a computer malfunction and sick airline employees put tens of thousands of travelers in holiday limbo Saturday, with Comair canceling all its flights and US Airways trying to reconnect thousands of pieces of luggage with their owners.
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One of the majors problems was that the discount airline couldn't handle rescheduling so many flight crews.
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A breakdown of a radio system linking air traffic controllers to high-altitude planes over Southern California forced federal officials to halt outgoing flights for three hours Tuesday evening at several airports, including Los Angeles
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The lone air traffic controller on duty the morning Comair Flight 5191 crashed cleared the jet for takeoff, then turned his back to do some "administrative duties" as the aircraft veered down the wrong runway, a federal investigator said Tuesday.
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Comair expects to be running normally today after being severely crippled by last week&#39;s storm and a computer failure. But judging from the reactions of passengers affected by the weekend&#39;s
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Comair Inc. said it expects to return to a full schedule by the middle of this week after a computer glitch grounded 1,100 flights over the snowy Christmas weekend.
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Air traffic controllers lost radio contact with aircraft flying high-altitude routes in the western United States on Tuesday, disrupting thousands of flights heading in and out of southern California, authorities said.
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(New Haven-WTNH, Dec. 27, 2004 6:48 AM ) _ This morning&#39;s Comair flight from Tweed-New Haven Airport to Cincinnati was cancelled this morning as the airline tries to get out from under problems that have crippled its system for days.
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Comair has begun warning pilots to use "extreme caution" when navigating runways at the airport where a crash killed 49 people last month, saying some diagrams aren't accurate, according to an e-mail obtained Monday by The Associated Press.
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Air traffic controllers were forced to use their personal cell phones to reroute hundreds of flights Tuesday after the Federal Aviation Administration's Memphis Center lost radar and telephone service for more than two hours, snarling air traffic in the middle of the nation.
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Officials with Comair Inc. expect the airline to return to a full schedule by the middle of this week, following a computer glitch that grounded about 1,100 flights over the snowy Christmas weekend.
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By SONJA BARISIC  ATLANTIC, Va. - Monday morning's scheduled launch of a rocket carrying satellites for the Air Force and NASA was called off, according to NASA spokesman Keith Koehler.  No other details were immediately available.
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Co-pilot of Heathrow-bound flight forcibly removed from cockpit after apparent nervous breakdown
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Comair sued the Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday, saying the agency was negligent in having only one air traffic controller on duty last year when a plane took off from the wrong runway and crashed, killing 49 people.
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The president of Delta subsidiary Comair Inc. resigned yesterday, just weeks after the failure of an overloaded computer system stranded hundreds of customers on Christmas.