Finally we have an update on the FAA's outage that occurred on Jan. 11. A contractor somehow "deleted files while working to correct synchronization between the live primary database and a backup database" (FAA NOTAM Statement). Hosts James Shuler and Taylor Littlejohn assess the situation and beg to ask the question: how on earth does this happen and what can we do to prevent it? 

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