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Contract personnel deleted software files: US on mega aviation outage
21/01/2023 08:14 PM | Click to read full article
The US has blamed the third-party contractors for last week’s mega outage that grounded thousands of flights, saying that “contract personnel unintentionally deleted files” while working on the 30-year-old software. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said that the files were deleted “while working to correct synchronisation between the live primary database and a backup database”. A glitch in the FAA software is at least 30 years old and six years away from being updated.
