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FAA Says Contractor Unintentionally Caused Outage That Disrupted Flights

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The Federal Aviation Administration has said that a contractor working for the air-safety regulator had unintentionally deleted computer files used in a pilot-alert system, leading to an outage that...

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Time for the good old “fire the contractor, replace with new contractor for less money. New contractor hires the *exact* same humans who made the original mistake, but at a pay cut” sigh Bureaucracy at its finest

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yeah.