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Holiday flight chaos worsened by password problem - report

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A single flight from Los Angeles to Paris triggered the failure on Monday 28 August .

Air traffic control systems handling the flight were confused by a duplicate code - DVL - representing both Deauville in France and Devil's Lake in North Dakota , USA .

The total cost of the incident to passengers and air operators was between 75m and 100 m.

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83

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80

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semi-formal

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English

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57

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