British Airways power meltdown blamed on IT contractor pulling the plug

Sooraj Shah
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BA source suggests that IT worker inadvertently switched off the power supply - and that UPS failed to cut in

British Airways' disastrous computer outage that knocked out its IT systems and left 75,000 passengers stranded over the bank holiday weekend was the result of a contractor who inadvertently switch...

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