David Renwick, a former Denverite, who now lives in Oregon, has been stranded at the airport in Portland for three hours on his way to San Fransico.
“When I got here they were already making an announcement,” Renwick said. “They said they were having systemwide computer problems affecting everything from reservations to weather reports for pilots, so they said all planes worldwide were grounded.”
At a United gate in Portland, Renwick is stranded with about 80 other people, he said.
A near-repeat of a week ago with US Airways. Airlines with computer problems left and right.
A smart federal, state and local law enforcement investigation caught a criminal tonight bent on mass destruction and murder in our city.Portland, Oregon Mayor Sam Adams • Quoted in a Tumblr post about the whole deal with the attempted suicide bomber, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, in his town. Yeah, that’s right. The mayor of Portland has a Tumblr, which is pretty freaking rad. It’s even more rad that they caught the dude before he could do any serious damage. But we offer a conditional, here: Tumblr buddy theonlyplformat makes a pretty great point about this incident. Why wait until he’s about to blow something up? Why not stop him four months earlier when he had already made the threat? (via inothernews)
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