US Airways grounded by computer crash

Nibble Cut cable causes chaos

By Nick Farrell

Fri Jan 30 2009, 10:42

A SEVERED CABLE CAUSED US AIRWAYS to lose its computer network and forced the grounding of 100 flights yesterday.

The fibre-optic cable was accidentally cut near one of its Phoenix data centres and affected its flight dispatch and airport computer systems.

Apparently things are back to normal now.µ

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