Why Does The FAA Flight Plan System Keep Failing?
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This is the third time in a little over three years that a glitch in the FAA system that collects airlines’ flight plans has caused massive delays. And as far as we can tell, there’s never been an adequate explanation for the outages. Nearly all commercial flight plans for the east coast are processed through a facility south of Atlanta. It appears that this is again the facility that has run into a glitch. The Atlanta facility also ran into problems processing data in August of 2008 and June of 2007. Right now the FAA says it is investigating the cause of the problem. Let’s hope public attention remains focused enough that the FAA is finally made to explain the glitch. Three years in a row is too steady of a pattern of problems. Incidentally, the FAA says there is no danger from the failure of the flight plan system, but this isn’t quite true. An aviation security expert we spoke with this morning said the glitch is almost certainly making it harder to detect when planes have deviated
