News Brief: Computer Failure Grounds Lufthansa Flights
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The computer error was fixed after a six-hour outage and services were expected to return to normal by the evening, Lufthansa said.
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By Steve Huettel, St. Petersburg Times, Fla.  Sep. 8--The Tampa Bay area's bad-luck airport is about to catch a break.   St.
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A computerized air traffic system experienced a temporary outage in South Florida, forcing controllers to ground some flights and resulting in at least four instances in which planes almost came too close together, officials said Tuesday.
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In the wake of last month's air traffic communications failure, investigators report that computer security issues haunt the FAA's most critical systems.
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Regional airline Comair will need several days to resume a full schedule of flights that were grounded over the busy holiday weekend due to a computer failure, a company official said.
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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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Flight cancellations stranded  thousands of Christmas weekend airline passengers in the United  States again on Sunday as two airlines wrestled with computer  and staffing headaches.
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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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(InfoWorld) - All Nippon AirwaysÂ (ANA) still doesn't know the exact cause of a systems failure that hit its domestic operations on Sunday and caused the cancellation or delay of hundreds of flights. "We have not yet been able to identify where in the connection system the trouble began," said Mineo Yamamoto, president and CEO of ANA, at a Tokyo news conference on Thursday. "Therefore since we are not able to identify the cause we cannot give you a promise [that it won't happen again] at this point in time." On Sunday data flowing between ANA's host computer running its domestic reservations system and six intermediate machines began moving much slower than normal causing a data backlog that eventually clogged the system. ANA was forced to cancel 130 flights and an additional 306 flights were delayed by more than an hour because passengers could not check-in for their flights. Around 69,300 people were affected. In the afternoon the data began flowing again and the problem resolved itself allowing the airline to begin operating flights. ANA also doesn't know what caused the system to begin working again and is working with system vendor Nihon Unisys on the problem. The last time ANA experienced such a damaging failure in its domestic reservation system was on March 21, 2003, when the system went down for about two and a half hours early on a Friday morning of a three-day holiday weekend. That forced 150 flights to be cancelled. "After those problems we thought we have been taking enough countermeasures to prevent another failure so it has been a great shame to see the same thing happen again on Sunday," said Yamamoto. "We will hurry to find out what happened." Yamamoto, who was speaking at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, began the news conference with an apology to all those affected by Sunday's problems. Â
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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.
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By Ken Kaye, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Jun. 9--Back-to-back failures in air traffic control computers snarled airline traffic along the East Coast and across the nation Friday.
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A cascading computer failure in the nation's air-traffic control system caused severe flight delays and some cancellations Friday along the East Coast.
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United Airlines, a unit of UAL Corp., on Wednesday said a systemwide computer failure prevented flights from being dispatched between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. Central time (9 a.m. to 11 a.m. EDT).
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A technical problem at Lufthansa forced the German airline to cancel some 29 domestic and European flights on Thursday. Although the German flag carrier&#39;s long-haul flights were not affected, further European
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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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Screeners at one of the nation's busiest airports received new computers ahead of schedule as federal officials scrambled to prevent a repeat of last month's systems breakdown that stranded 17,000 international travelers.
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The electronics of Boeing&#39;s new 787 Dreamliner jet could be vulnerable to hackers due to the way critical flight systems are linked with those used by passengers, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has warned.The 787 &quot;allows new kinds of passenger connectivity to previously isolated data networks connected to systems that perform functions required for the safe operation of the airplane,&quot; the FAA said in the warning, which has been posted on Cryptome.org .The design of those electronic systems &quot;may result in security vulnerabilities from intentional or unintentional corruption of data and systems critical to the safety and maintenance of the airplane.&quot;The document doesn&#39;t have a response from Boeing, but a company spokeswoman told Wired magazine it was aware of the problem and had been working on it for several years with the FAA.The FAA document includes comments on the issue from the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) and competitor Airbus.ALPA said Boeing should find a way to allow the flight crew to disable the passengers&#39; ability to connect to the systems. In response, the FAA said it preferred not to dictate specific design features but let Boeing determine the appropriate security protections.Airbus, whose comments support Boeing, said that physically separating the passenger and critical networks -- one sure-fire method of stopping tampering -- means that passengers may not then have access to satellite and other network connections. The company argued that a minimum amount of communication between the networks is necessary.The FAA responded that airlines could then use technology &quot;which allows sharing of resources without allowing unauthorized access and inappropriate actions to systems and data.&quot;Boeing has sold more than more than 740 Dreamliners so far. The midsize plane is scheduled for a test flight early this year, with a full rollout of the planes later this year, according to Boeing&#39;s Web site.