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Microsoft software implicated in LAX shutdown

ZDNet says

A three-hour system shutdown that affected South California's airports was reportedly caused by a technician who failed to reboot an MS-based system A bug in a Microsoft system compounded by human error was ultimately responsible for a three-hour radio breakdown that left hundreds of aircraft aloft without guidance on Tuesday, according to a report in the LA Times.

(The story is here, but it seems to screw up Firefox, so you might want to view it in Lynx or Dillo.)

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