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One wonders how a single person can really cause so much damage at a major ATC facility. I would have thought that many of the major systems would have been proofed in the last decade. An attack on an ATC facility would be a fairly foreseeable event.

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Agreed, this is quite shocking, but I would expect similar issues for other services/utilities.

It's the same for any corporate disaster recovery plan, it looks good on paper, but seldom works in practice. For all the talk of 'redundant systems', they are not easy to test (unless there's an actual failure of the primary system). Usually failing over / switching to the other system involves downtime and that's not acceptable during 'business hours'. So the systems get a perfunctory test over a weekend and it's usually deemed to be a 'success'.

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The upside is, the owner of the company should hopefully still be stuck down in Austin waiting for a flight home. Unless he decides to drive, of course, but that'll still take him a day :D

Hopefully a quiet Monday is on the cards.

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I suspect that security (systems and staff) was largely limited to keeping the building perimeter secure, and that, given the importance to the entire country of keeping air traffic flowing, security within ATC facilities is going to have to be improved.

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Just for the record, we have had at least one Tour Group stranded in the North East, since Saturday Morning, due to the actions of this Cockwomble.

50 people, with Hotel Rooms for 3 nights.

They are hoping to return to the Midwest, sometime, tonight. No Coaches available to bring them back, either,

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Nicked from arsebook :lol:

Who said pilots don't have a sense of humor?

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I've read most of these before, but they still give me a chuckle :)

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2 of my old mates trying and, failing to get departures at LHR back up and running...

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Good Bye MD-11 -- Too Bad Nobody Ever Loved You - Forbes

Say goodbye to the last of the 'penis planes' (as my ex-wife called them) at least commercially - I flew on one once, and really quite liked it

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That's sad. I was always a fan of the three-holed widebodies. DC-10, MD-11, Tristar. I liked 'em all, myself. Too bad I never flew on one though.

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Flying on an AA 757 from Chicago - Manchester, at the end of the Month.

Not looking forward to it....except the fact that I'm going Home for a bit.


Jim.

Re: Planespotting
 

Bad luck.

I just recently did two Manchester-Chicago flights (outward leg was to Heathrow) on AA, and they used the 767 for those, so maybe it'll be slightly better on the way back.

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It's supposed to be going back to all 767 operation in 2015. But, spotty service.

No longer a daily flight, year round.


Jim

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One wonders, when AA retire the 767, if it will revert to a 757 service again. Can't see them operating their 787s on that route. Though, both flights I was on were quite full, so maybe they will.

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They will have to do something soon, as both the 757 and 767 are about to age out.