American Airline delays caused by app, not iPad<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p class="intro">American Airlines flights that couldn't take off due to problems with flight plans have since had the issue identified and fixed.</p> <p><a href="
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jeppesen-mobile-fd/id446912582?mt=8&at=10l3Vy&ct=d_im" title="" rel="nofollow">Jeppesen[/url], who provides the custom app American Airlines uses to store and view the flight plans, pushed some bad bits that caused a temporary problem for pilots and crews. It affected less than 1% of flights, which is reportedly less than the average thunderstorm, but safety absolutely comes first.<!--break--> A remedy for the problem has already been provided, according to Jeppesen on Twitter:</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><p>
@Jeppesen has provided a remedy for
@AmericanAir pilots to address an isolated app issue that caused flight delays Tues. night</p>— Jeppesen (@Jeppesen)
April 29, 2015 <script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><p>The story made headlines yesterday in part because the Jeppesen app runs on iPads and putting that or Apple on top of page draws a lot of attention. It's sort of like focusing on a binder when the pages don't get printed properly, but it is what it is.</p> <p>Needless to say delays are frustrating for everyone and no doubt whatever issues caused the problem are already being addressed.</p> </div></div></div><img width='1' height='1' src='
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American Airline delays caused by app, not iPad
