Re: [Y2K-Rollover-Watch] Air Traffic Problems in North East USA- UNK if Y2K related

Thats strange the an FAA Air Trafffic Control Bug occurred in the North east NYC area earlier this week. It caused several hours of outage and grounded aircraft. It too remains unexplainable


Glenn
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At 08:37 PM 01/06/2000 -0000, ch@sanddollar.net wrote:
>http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1515688.html?tag=st.ne.1002.tgif?st.ne.fd.gif.d
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>Computer glitch causes havoc at Northeast airports
>By Joe Wilcox
>Staff Writer, CNET News.com
>January 6, 2000, 9:55 a.m. PT
>A computer problem grounded planes in the Northeast this morning, potentially snarling air traffic for the remainder of the day.
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>A Federal Aviation Administration representative said the problem does not appear to be related to the Y2K computer bug. The problem occurred about 6:15 a.m. EST at Washington Center in Leesburg, Va., which handles much of the air traffic for the Northeast.
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>The problem was related to communications between the main computer at Washington Center and an unidentified peripheral device. As error messages mounted, they overloaded the main computer, forcing the operations center to shift to a backup system.
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>"We don't know what the cause of this problem is yet. Obviously we will be investigating," said FAA representative Las Door. "It is also six days past the new year, [and] there is no reason to believe it is Y2K-related. But we are still investigating."
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>The FAA temporarily grounded planes at all airports in Boston; New York; Philadelphia; Pittsburgh; metropolitan Washington, D.C.; Teterboro, N.J.; and Raleigh-Durham, N.C.
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Glenn
__________________________________
Glenn Ericson,
IBM Certified Specialist
Phoenix Consulting LLC
East Elmhurst, NY USA
Phone 718 898 9805 Fax 718 446 1150
mailto:Glenn-Ericson@att.net
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