August 27, 2008
Blue Screen O' Death as Hundreds of flights grounded:"This was a failure mode we've not seen before," said Hank Krakowski, chief operating officer of the F.A.A.'s Air Traffic Organization division.... The software snafu happened while the F.A.A. was upgrading Nadin. Its mission-critical system appears to rely on Microsoft Windows, and who of us has never suffered a computer outage while upgrading to a new version Windows?" - F.A.A. Computer Snafu
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