http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=2275
A major breakdown in Southern California's air traffic control system
last week was partly due to a "design anomaly" in the way Microsoft
Windows servers were integrated into the system, according to a report
in the Los Angeles Times. 

The radio system shutdown, which lasted more than three hours, left 800
planes in the air without contact to air traffic control, and led to at
least five cases where planes came too close to one another, according
to comments by the Federal Aviation Administration reported in the LA
Times and The New York Times. Air traffic controllers were reduced to
using personal mobile phones to pass on warnings to controllers at other
facilities, and watched close calls without being able to alert pilots,
according to the LA Times report...............


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