NEW YORK: A common design problem in the US air traffic control system made it possible for a U-2 spy plane to spark a computer glitch that recently grounded or delayed hundreds of Los Angeles area flights, according to an inside account and security experts.
In theory, the same vulnerability could have been used by an attacker in a deliberate shutdown, the experts said, though two people familiar with the incident said it would be difficult to replicate the exact conditions.
