The Unfriendly Skies of Computer Glitches and Human Error

摘要

Airlines isn't likely to forget Monday, Sept. 8,2008, anytime soon. No, it wasn't weather delays at O'Hare or passengers angry at a having to pay to check a bag. It was the day the parent company (UAL) lost most of its value as its stock price plummeted due to an erroneous report of bankruptcy. Here's an outline of what happened: A 2002 story from the Chicago Tribune about UAL declaring bankruptcy landed in the Florida Sun-Sentinel's "most viewed" section of its website just past midnight on Sept. 7, 2008. Google's news-bot drifted by a few minutes later and added it as a new item with a Sept. 6,2008, date, that being the time in California.