http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireSto...delay-39093387
An outage also hit the system for screening checked bags in one of the five terminals at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on Thursday night. American Airlines asked customers on flights leaving from that terminal to check luggage at another terminal.
Worse, TSA still doesn't have a clue what went wrong in PHX, let alone how to prevent it from happening at other airports across the country. I'd like to think TSA takes measures to prevent hackers from attacking the systems, but I doubt it.
By Friday, screening systems were working normally, and the bags that had been delayed were on their way to passengers, Melendez said. But tests were continuing because it was not clear what caused the malfunction.
A network switch failed and caused the software system that scans luggage for explosives to go into a continual reboot cycle, TSA Administrator Peter Neffenger told reporters Friday at National Airport in Washington, D.C. He said the system breakdown in Phoenix was an isolated incident.