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Italian Air Traffic Control Asks Whole Country to Try Turning It Off and On Again
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Flights across Italy were delayed Friday after an air traffic control fault, and officials rushed to say no hackers were involved, which passengers found somehow worse.
By mid-morning, the departures board had moved on to new options.
Engineers followed the official recovery procedure: unplug the entire peninsula, count to thirty, and plug it back in firmly.
On screenENAV NETWORK RECOVERY PROTOCOL · STEP 1 OF 1 · Unplug the entire peninsula, count to thirty, and plug it back in firmly. If the problem persists, check Sardinia.
While the country rebooted, controllers switched to the backup system: one man on the roof with two orange paddles.
The outage was later traced to a router in Bologna that someone unplugged to charge their phone.
It was at four percent.
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