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Article: United States: FAA testing air traffic control system in SLC.
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- October 9, 2009
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At 8:30 a.m. Saturday, as air traffic controllers watched the skies above Salt Lake City International Airport, a Texas-bound flight morphed into a flight from Nebraska.
Continental Airlines Flight 440 had just left the Salt Lake City International Airport airspace. An air traffic controller transferred the flight to the computer of another air traffic controller. But the computer misidentified it as SkyWest Flight 4881, which had just landed in Salt Lake City from Omaha, Neb.
The air traffic controller reported the glitch to management and the Federal Aviation Administration. The glitch occurred on a new air traffic control computer system under testing ...