United Airlines Tech Outage Termed ‘Controllable Delay’

United Airlines aircraft
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A disruption that grounded United Airlines flights for several hours on the evening of Aug. 6 was caused by internal flight operations technology, unrelated to cybersecurity concerns or the broader air traffic control system. The system impacted was Unimatic, a technology that first become...
Christine Boynton

Christine Boynton is a Senior Editor covering air transport in the Americas for Aviation Week Network.

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