Automation failure led to mass flight cancellations.
If the FAA’s top brass wanted to send a clear message to lawmakers that they really have no business managing the NextGen ATC infrastructure modernization program, a crippling computer meltdown in Washington D.C.’s airspace snarling air traffic up and down the East Coast on a busy summer travel weekend would be just the way do it.
The FAA most assuredly did not want to send any such message, especially with some in Congress calling for a privatized corp
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