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Going nowhere. An equipment breakdown causes thousands of flight delays and cancellations across the country. From ABC News headquarters, this is World News with Charles Gibson. Around the country today, thousands of airline passengers in a hurry to get where they were going went nowhere,

instead a link in the FAA communication system broke down, shutting down a key computer relied upon by air traffic controllers. It was down for four hours. But many of the flight delays across the country were a whole lot longer. And it’s not the first time this has happened. Here’s Lisa Stark.

 

As planes began backing up around the country on the ground and in the air, the FAA scrambled(급히 서두르다) to unravel(해결하다) the glitch(사소한 고장) in the air traffic control system. “I just walked in the airport, look at the board, and it said your flights cancelled.” “I’m tired and I’m frustrated.” No one was going anywhere fast. Extensive delays stretched from New York to Atlanta, to Huston.

 

By one calculation, the glitch may have caused as many as 2,000 flight delays. The problem began shortly after 5 AM EST when single circuit board failed in an air traffic control center in Salt Lake City. It meant controllers around the nation were no longer receiving information about flights electronically. Instead, they had to resort(의지하다) to phone calls and manually inputting flight information into their computers.

 

ABC News has learned the FAA immediately notified the US military and homeland security. We’ve also learned that the military which since 911 is supposed to get FAA radar images showing the location of every plane in the air was not getting some of that information. It managed to work around that. But as a precaution, it also began using AWACS Surveillance Plane as an extra eye in the sky.

 

This was the second time in a little over a year that a computer glitch brought the nation’s airlines and airports to a halt. Increasing calls for better and more reliable equipment. As for that system that failed in Salt Lake City, tonight it will be replaced. Lisa Stark, ABC News, Washington.

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