Monday January 3 11:32 PM ET
Computer Malfunction Delays FlightsNASHUA, N.H. (AP) - A computer malfunction at the Federal Aviation Administration's Boston Center here delayed flights at airports in Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York Monday night.
The main computer at the air traffic control center went down around 7 p.m., said Jim Peters, spokesman for the FAA in New England. He said the problem was corrected by about 10 p.m. The center used a backup computer system during the outage.
``As a result of the outage we incurred extensive delays throughout the Northeast, both for flights arriving and departing,'' he said.
Peters said FAA officials would not know what caused the malfunction until Tuesday. (Why, because you have to talk to that liar Jane Garvey first to find out how to explain it?)
``Without knowing what has caused the problem, it would be premature to speculate,'' he said. ``It may turn out to be something other than Y2K.'' (No, I'd be willing to be it WILL turn out to be something other than Y2K, because you'd never admit if it was.)
In Washington, Eliot Brenner, FAA assistant administrator for public affairs, said: ``The problems in Boston are not Y2K related and they are over now.'' (How do you know that? Mr. Peters said they won't know until Tuesday! You lying sack.)
The Boston Center controls flights over more than 160,000 square miles of air space from the Atlantic Ocean to western New York and from the Canadian border to south of Long Island in New York.
Departures and arrivals at Logan International Airport in Boston were delayed by at least 30 minutes because of the malfunction, according to airport officials.
Departing flights at both Kennedy International Airport in New York City and Newark International Airport in New Jersey were delayed by up to 75 minutes, said Sgt. Reinaldo Gonzalez of the Port Authority police. Shorter delays were experienced at La Guardia Airport in New York, Gonzalez said. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey runs all three airports.
In Chicago, radar displays used to direct traffic into O'Hare International Airport went down for about two minutes Monday afternoon, causing minor delays.
The FAA said air traffic controllers never lost audio contact with the five planes in the air and the five on the ground at O'Hare at the time.
MCI, which runs the system that failed, blames the outage on a power surge at an O'Hare generator. FAA spokesman Tony Molinaro said the problem was not Y2K-related, and planes were never in jeopardy. (Yeah, right. Aircraft on a descending approach to the busiest airport in the world, and you don't know where they are. Lot of good your walkie talkie is gonna do when they have a Big MAC (Mid Air Collision) asswipe.
To put it bluntly, this is BULLCRAP!! The Y2K bug is now more dangerous than ever, because they didn't fix it, now it is being ignored, and no one knows when it will show up. Thanks to that #%*^@!& Jane Garvey and that @%^*+!% Koskinen!!
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