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cdiamand on Jan 12, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: A corrupt file led to the FAA ground stoppage – al...

The FAA has risk reduction baked into it's very heart and soul and this is evident the more you learn about how the system operates (go look at a flying textbook).

It is not perfect organization, but I think it deserves more credit than it is receiving in this thread.

berniedurfee on Jan 12, 2023 [–]

Really. The outage was impactful, but it was remediated in a few hours.

That ain’t bad considering how infrequent incidents are in light of the immense complexity of the operation.

Much less complex and much more modern systems go down regularly and sometimes don’t come back up for much longer.

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