British Airways: Da komputer is down worldwide

[Georgi Guninski]

On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 12:19:04PM -0500, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
> On 05/27/2017 12:17 PM, Georgi Guninski wrote:
> > http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40069865
> > She said: "When we finally boarded the captain came out and told us
> > their computer systems were down worldwide.
> 
> To err is human.
> 
> To really screw things up... that requires a computer.
>

Speculations and electrical engineering for dummies:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/31/cloud_collaboriation_suite_microsoft/

 if someone panicked and interrupted the automatic switchover sequence -
it could have resulted in both the battery supply and the generator
supply being briefly connected in series to the power bus feeding the
racks. That would result in the data centre’s servers being fed 480v
instead of 240v, causing a literal meltdown.