[Dynagroove] Last friday thanks and so sorry

[Cade]

Hey all I hope every one had a good weekend.  Itr seemed that Murphy wanted to 
get involved in the LA house scene this weekend.    (Murphy as in murphy's 
law).  It seems like he not only dabbled with friday but saturday as well.

However I think it was a good weekend.  Boardner's was bustling and the SG guys 
had a hell of a party!!!

for those of you who want to know what happened to the ECBM on Friday here is 
an article:

Computer Failure Triggers Worst Flight Delays Of The Year

Air traffic controllers at two major U.S. airports had to move flights in and 
out with hand-written airline schedules.

By Sharon Gaudin
InformationWeek
Jun 8, 2007 07:01 PM

A federal computer system that processes pilots' flight plans went down for two 
hours Friday morning, causing a domino effect of problems and hours of delays 
for travelers.

A spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration called Friday the worst 
travel day of the year so far.

But you wouldn't have to tell that to any of the thousands of people spending 
hours waiting in an airport or strapped into a seat, sitting on the tarmac 
waiting to take off.

An Atlanta computer system that processes pilots' flight plans and sends them 
to air traffic controllers for domestic and international flights failed at 
6:57 Friday morning, according to Tammy Jones, an FAA spokesman. A mirrored 
back-up site in Salt Lake City, Utah immediately took over the Atlanta systems' 
operations, just as planned.

However, veering from plan, the Salt Lake system couldn't take the full weight 
of the load and began to stagger under the strain. Jones said in an interview 
with InformationWeek that real-time flight information that should have been 
moving quickly through the system began to back up and lag.

"It was moving processing very slowly," said Jones. "The air traffic 
controllers had to process information manually."

That's a lot of hand-written plans. Jones calculated that the system generally 
handles 50,000 to 55,000 domestic flights every day. That number doesn't 
include international flights coming in or out of the United States. The 
computer backup quickly translated into a flight backup. Without the necessary 
flight plans in order, planes simply couldn't take off.

So the lag continued until the Atlanta system was brought online at 10:52 a.m.

However, New York's airports -- giants La Guardia and John F. Kennedy -- didn't 
come back online so easily. Jones said the New York airports struggled to 
regain their connection to the Atlanta processing system, and they didn't get 
back online until 12:48. That left air traffic controllers at two major U.S. 
airports trying to move flights in and out with hand-written schedules.

By 5:30 in the afternoon Friday, La Guardia was still experiencing an average 
of a three-hour flight delay, according to an advisory on the FAA site. JFK 
flights were delayed for two hours and 42 minutes, while Newark International 
Airport in neighboring New Jersey was backed up for two and a half hours.

The FAA did not yet have information on how many flights were delayed or how 
many passengers were affected. The cause of the computer glitch is under 
investigation.

Jones, however, was quick to point out that the downed computer in Atlanta 
wasn't the only cause of Friday's travel trouble. A line of harsh thunderstorms 
stretched from Canada down through Texas for much of Friday, further delaying 
flights across the mid-section of the country.

"As far as delays, it's a pretty bad day," said Jones. "We can't distinguish at 
this time what percentage of the delays were caused by the computer system and 
how many were caused by the weather."

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