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0 pointsmike_hearn2y ago0 comments

They aren't that rare. Last UK ATC crash was in 2014 I think:

https://www.ft.com/content/65544730-8216-11e4-b9d0-00144feab...

And that's just the UK. Airport systems crashing is a regular occurrence. Paris crashed due to still relying on a Windows 3.1 system:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-23-year-old-windows-3-1-syst...

The IT is just poor. Tech firms routinely change much more massive and complex systems at a far faster pace compared to the stagnation found in airline IT, and yet total failures are not more frequent.

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jacquesm2y ago· 2 in thread

If it makes the news it is almost by definition rare.

Dfiesl2y ago

Im not sure that's true. If something makes the news it's likely to be of interest to a large amount of people, that doesn't immediately qualify it as something rare.

theolivenbaum2y ago

Musk's foolish actions while owner of Twitter are not rare yet always on the news

N19PEDL22y ago

Not to forget the failure of Frankfurt airport systems earlier this year due to the breakage of a single glass-fibre cable:

https://www.dw.com/en/lufthansa-system-failure-causes-massiv...

Though this is not due to outdated IT, but lack of redundancy of a critical component of the system instead.

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