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Article: S.L. testing air-traffic update
- Article from:
- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- October 8, 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 in a facility on
700 North, scheduled ...