British Airways IT crash 'caused by contractor who switched off power'
Human error rather than equipment failure
Friday, 2nd June 2017
A contractor doing maintenance work at a British Airways data centre inadvertently switched off the power supply, knocking out the airline's computer systems and leaving 75,000 people stranded last weekend.
This is according to a Times newspaper report today.
Quoting a BA source, the newspaper said the power supply unit that sparked the IT failure was working perfectly but was accidentally shut down by a worker.
An investigation into the power outage is likely to focus on human error rather than any equipment failure, it said.
BA had to cancel all flights from London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports last Saturday. It blamed a power surge that knocked out its computer system, disrupting flight operations, call centres and its website.
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