Man, the words “airline” and “crash” never mean anything good when they’re near each other. Today, the US Airways website crashed and all flights were temporarily grounded after a power outage at one airline’s data centers grounded airport and web-based computer systems. US Airways is based in Tempe, Arizona, and the data center was located in Phoenix.
More: NYCaviation.com, MSNBC. The problems appear to have started around 430pm ET today based on a cursory Twitter search for the hashtag #USairways. The usairways.com website was also temporarily down. The airline’s Twitter account is now frantically retweeting the phrase, “Some airport computer systems are coming back online now and we are working to restore operational order. More on @usairways.”
At least it wasn’t @LulzSec.
(Image: usairways.com)