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Title: UK's entire ATC Down
Post by: Gixer on June 03, 2004, 01:17:00 AM: Just on the news, apparently entire ATC for UK has shutdown and they are grounding all the planes as going to manual.

~~...-Gixer~~
Title: UK's entire ATC Down
Post by: Saurdaukar on June 03, 2004, 01:28:47 AM: Any foul play suspected?
Title: UK's entire ATC Down
Post by: newtype on June 03, 2004, 01:52:48 AM: So I guess all the airline pilots have their parking brakes on.
Title: UK's entire ATC Down
Post by: Gixer on June 03, 2004, 01:57:40 AM: LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's computer operated air traffic control system is not operating today, British Airways says.

All flights from London's Heathrow airport have been suspended until further notice due to the failure, a Reuters reporter at the airport said on Thursday. "There has just been an announcement that there will be a delay of at least two hours," he said.

"The computers at Swanick air traffic control have gone down. We understand they (air traffic control) are operating manually," a spokeswoman at British Airways said.
Title: UK's entire ATC Down
Post by: _Schadenfreude_ on June 03, 2004, 04:06:01 AM: oops obviously the Labour Governments plan for privatisation is not going to plan.......I'll bet there's a major panic going on at No 10 as they try to get someone to volunteer to be interrogated on the news tonight - you guys have NO idea how much British journalists hate politicians - it's going to be good!
Title: UK's entire ATC Down
Post by: Nilsen on June 03, 2004, 04:33:23 AM: The puters were prolly running on windows :p

Kinda wierd that there is no backup system.
Title: UK's entire ATC Down
Post by: CyranoAH on June 03, 2004, 04:51:34 AM: Ok who pulled the plug?
Title: UK's entire ATC Down
Post by: Nilsen on June 03, 2004, 05:08:57 AM: We dont know yet, but we suspect that somehow Mr Black has something to do with it.
Title: UK's entire ATC Down
Post by: straffo on June 03, 2004, 05:10:56 AM: Quote
Originally posted by CyranoAH
Ok who pulled the plug?

Skuzzy ?
Title: UK's entire ATC Down
Post by: Nilsen on June 03, 2004, 05:21:31 AM: Quote
Originally posted by straffo
Skuzzy ?

I think Pyro uploaded a patch to the wrong ftp address :D
Title: UK's entire ATC Down
Post by: Toad on June 03, 2004, 08:10:00 AM: "NOthing can go wrong.......go wrong.......go wrong.......go wrong.......go wrong.......go wrong.......go wrong"
Title: UK's entire ATC Down
Post by: lazs2 on June 03, 2004, 08:21:58 AM: so joe lucas still does british electronics?

lazs
Title: UK's entire ATC Down
Post by: storch on June 03, 2004, 08:45:43 AM: Quote
Originally posted by lazs2
so joe lucas still does british electronics?

lazs

LOL the prince of darkness, too funny.
Title: UK's entire ATC Down
Post by: Momus-- on June 03, 2004, 08:54:01 AM: Quote
Originally posted by lazs2
so joe lucas still does british electronics?

lazs

Actually, I'm pretty sure they use Sun Microsystems tech for UK atc:p
Title: UK's entire ATC Down
Post by: Russian on June 03, 2004, 09:07:39 AM: Did they try to reboot...?
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Post by: Nilsen on June 03, 2004, 09:14:03 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Russian
Did they try to reboot...?

no, then they would have to start downloading jenna jamesons latest from the beginning.
Title: UK's entire ATC Down
Post by: LLv34 Jarsci on June 03, 2004, 09:21:17 AM: ...Just on my shift last tuesday Finnish ATC system hanged... had to order 1 plane shut down and slot allocation messages swarmed my message panel... had to write all strips by hand.

Didn't like a bit.
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Post by: ra on June 03, 2004, 09:31:58 AM: This kind of thing happens at Chicago O'Hare just about every week. I think they still use flares and signal lights there.
Title: UK's entire ATC Down
Post by: Nilsen on June 03, 2004, 09:46:49 AM: Quote
Originally posted by ra
This kind of thing happens at Chicago O'Hare just about every week. I think they still use flares and signal lights there.

Bruce Willis was cool in that movie :)
Title: UK's entire ATC Down
Post by: Skuzzy on June 03, 2004, 10:23:09 AM: I have not been to the UK in a quite a spell. It was not me! Honest!
Title: UK's entire ATC Down
Post by: Nilsen on June 03, 2004, 10:26:47 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Skuzzy
I have not been to the UK in a quite a spell. It was not me! Honest!

better head on over to Pyros desk and see what FTP adress he sent the Beta37 patch to
Title: UK's entire ATC Down
Post by: NUTTZ on June 03, 2004, 10:41:04 AM: Nah... It is HiTech , just fixing their code:)

NUTTZ

Quote
Originally posted by Nilsen
I think Pyro uploaded a patch to the wrong ftp address :D
Title: UK's entire ATC Down
Post by: Nilsen on June 03, 2004, 10:47:17 AM: Quote
Originally posted by NUTTZ
Nah... It is HiTech , just fixing their code:)

NUTTZ

Maybe this is part of something bigger...much bigger, like maybe AH2 is gonna get an ATC system. Yeah thats its....he was just testing the code on the brits system so we dont have to beta test it :) I firmly belive that its Pyro tho, Hitech looks way to cute and fund.
Title: UK's entire ATC Down
Post by: Replicant on June 03, 2004, 11:23:46 AM: Apparently it was at West Drayton and not Swanick. It was the computer system that printed out all the paper route tags for the controllers - info of the flight etc. There was a 2 hour delay whilst they manually written all the flights down.

Of course that's what we've been told, rumour has it they tried AHII and they got a CTD! :)
Title: UK's entire ATC Down
Post by: Sox62 on June 03, 2004, 12:33:09 PM: Rumor is their computers were using the old Ultima Online servers which explains the system crashing.
Title: UK's entire ATC Down
Post by: Nilsen on June 03, 2004, 12:35:32 PM: please stop trying to shift the blame away from Pyro.

Pyro....may we have a statement?
Title: UK's entire ATC Down
Post by: Otto on June 03, 2004, 01:55:17 PM: 100 x = 0
200 if x > 1 goto 400
300 goto 100
400 end
500....
Title: UK's entire ATC Down
Post by: Maverick on June 03, 2004, 03:20:32 PM: The system, built and programed in France, had a minor problem today when Lufthansa sent a flight to London. The system surrendered.

:p :p :p :D
Title: UK's entire ATC Down
Post by: FUNKED1 on June 03, 2004, 07:08:49 PM: Quote
Originally posted by lazs2
so joe lucas still does british electronics?

lazs

LOL I was waiting for the Lucas joke.
Title: UK's entire ATC Down
Post by: Hawklore on June 03, 2004, 08:12:18 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Nilsen
The puters were prolly running on windows :p

Kinda wierd that there is no backup system.

I thought manually was the backup system for windows.... :confused:

Rip out the hard drive take a magnet to it, no more crashing while reformating.. :)