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Human Error Caused Outage That Snarled US Airports: Regulator

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During an hours-long computer outage on January 11, 2022, US flights were halted from taking off, causing more travel headaches shortly after a chaotic holiday season

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The computer glitch that forced the temporary suspension last week of US domestic airline departures was caused by a contractor mistakenly deleting files, the country's aviation regul...

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