We needed an investigation the minute they grounded the planes.

This is the first clue that Club Members are involved.

If he knew what he was doing, he would have at least said, "yeah, we should investigate what happened" and then quietly forget about it. But he swerved the wrong way and now we know we need to look deeper.

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Exactly what a ventriloquist doll would say with a hand up his ass.

Also we're going to use this as a(nother) chance to enrich ourselves and our buddies at the expense of everyone else, so we'd appreciate it if you turned a blind eye to that

Duffy I think. He wants money to fix the shit his son-in-law's no bid AI company broke.

What they really need to do is hire some government employees strictly to upgrade and maintain the air traffic network

They claim a contractor, from a company linked to multiple air traffic events, was changing networking equipment from the old stuff to IP networking, and presumably they misconfigured a router and caused a packet storm

Personally, I do think it was probably some slop AI configuration that is to blame, but even if their incident report is accurate... Why the hell are we letting a little contractor with a bunch of big problems touch our super important special network?

In any sane world, we'd create a few teams to become experts on the system, and pay them well to take full responsibility for the network forever. It's a very important legacy system, we need specialists on the payroll, not to hire the lowest cost bidder

I'm sure there were better ways to do it so it didn't get so much negative publicity.

Actually I know they could have.

But this regime is so goddamn incompetent that I would bet they did intend for something like that to get tested, but didn't intend for it to get out of control like it did.

Not to dismiss the issue but only some frequencies were failing. Letting the flights already in the air while not letting anyone take off minimized the risk.

The international flights that were allowed were from north and east airports going to Europe that go into Canada's airspace very quickly and west coast going to Asia and Hawaii that basically fly with no air traffic control comms

For four hours? This doesn't hold up to even the slightest scrutiny.