{"id":10523,"date":"2009-11-19T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-19T16:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T14:19:00","slug":"computer-glitch-causes-flight-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/10523-computer-glitch-causes-flight-delays.html","title":{"rendered":"Computer glitch causes flight delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a system-wide problem and it&#8217;s a problem getting looked at right now,&#8221; FAA spokeswoman Diane Spitalieri told AFP. &#8220;It&#8217;s slowing down the system significantly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She said the flight delays would increase if the problem does not get resolved quickly, as pilots were now forced to file their flight plans manually.<\/p>\n<p>The system malfunction was affecting flights across the eastern United States.<\/p>\n<p>The affected computer system appeared to be the National Airspace Data Interchange Network.<\/p>\n<p>A malfunction of that system in August 2008 delayed hundreds of flights in the eastern part of the country, causing the FAA to shift processing to a backup location in Salt Lake City, Utah.<\/p>\n<div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A glitch in a computer system in Atlanta, Georgia that pilots use to file flight plans was causing major air travel delays Thursday, the US Federal Aviation Administration said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}