Ask HN: Why are no flights taking off from Munich?

The Munich airport is down, and every minute there is an announcement that the whole IT system is down.

EDIT: So the total downtime was ~1h, from 10:45 to 11:45. No idea what the cause was, but I heard the crew saying Amadeus was down.

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MrKitai 4y ago ↗

Flightradar says ..well...

https://www.flightradar24.com/47.51,14.29/5

mastermedo 4y ago ↗

Thanks for the link. Maybe it’s only local to Munich airport. O.o?

mastermedo 4y ago ↗

Edited the title to say Munich instead of Europe.

thorin 4y ago ↗

Similar thing happened at a Heathrow terminal, the day after hundreds of British Airways workers were made redundant / outsourced. Possibly a coincidence!

garlicrouted 4y ago ↗

Maybe someone decided to exploit one of the myriad of security vulerabilities they noticed there the last time they visited... a decade plus ago.

(It's gonna be a big suspect list. Good luck to... Scotland Yard or whatever.)