Washington Center Avoids Major System Shutdown

Washington Air Route Traffic Control Center, Leesburg, Va., avoided a system failure that could have delayed aircraft throughout much of the East Coast yesterday by shutting down a computer system and switching to the only backup before it failed. The problem was in equipment the center uses to link...

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