{"id":72901,"date":"2017-09-28T19:02:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T02:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/worldwide-airport-check-in-systems-crash-was-caused-by-single-switch"},"modified":"2017-09-28T19:02:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T02:02:38","slug":"worldwide-airport-check-in-systems-crash-was-caused-by-single-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/worldwide-airport-check-in-systems-crash-was-caused-by-single-switch","title":{"rendered":"Worldwide airport check-in systems crash was caused by single switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worldwide-airport-check-in-systems-crash-was-caused-by-single-switch.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>Huge queues formed at airports around the world today after an IT system vital to scores of airlines crashed due to one faulty switch.<\/p>\n<p>A program run by a huge tech firm called Amadeus is behind computers for British Airways, Air France, Lufthansa and other carriers, who use it every day to check passengers onto flights.<\/p>\n<p>But the system was sent into meltdown today when the firm accidentally triggered a computer crash, causing long lines of upset passengers to form at airports across the globe.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-4928906\/Major-disruption-airports-world.html\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-4928906\/Major-disrup...world.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huge queues formed at airports around the world today after an IT system vital to scores of airlines crashed due to one faulty switch. A program run by a huge tech firm called Amadeus is behind computers for British Airways, Air France, Lufthansa and other carriers, who use it every day to check passengers onto [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}