U2 shuts down LAX 30/4/2014

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[/url]A relic from the Cold War appears to have triggered a software glitch

 

at a major air traffic control center in California Wednesday that led to delays and cancellations of hundreds of flights across the country....

 

 

 

On Wednesday at about 2 p.m., according to sources, a U-2 spy plane, the same type of aircraft that flew high-altitude spy missions over Russia 50 years ago, passed through the airspace monitored by the L.A. Air Route Traffic Control Center in Palmdale, Calif. The L.A. Center handles landings and departures at the region’s major airports, including Los Angeles International (LAX), San Diego and Las Vegas.

 

 

 

The computers at the L.A. Center are programmed to keep commercial airliners and other aircraft from colliding with each other. The U-2 was flying at 60,000 feet, but the computers were attempting to keep it from colliding with planes that were actually miles beneath it."

 

Well like the SR-71 I don't think they can fairly call it a relic when they have nothing of comparable performance to replace it.