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[News] [Rival] Windows-based Scanners Lead to Airport Chaos?

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Windows-based Scanners Lead to Airport Chaos?
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 04:13:31 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Word on the street is that Windows might be the cause of the following:

Computer glitch causes delays at LAX

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| Weary international passengers were stuck at Los Angeles International 
| Airport for several hours, unable to set foot in the United States after a 
| computer failure prevented customs officials from screening arrivals.  
| 
| Over 20,000 international passengers, both Americans and foreigners, sat in 
| four airport terminals and in 60 planes starting about 2 p.m. on Saturday, 
| when the computer system broke down, said Los Angeles World Airports 
| spokesman Paul Haney.   
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070812/ap_on_re_us/lax_backup

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