Last week another CME only hit the Earth a glancing blow, yet
was able to disrupt airline communications.
The solar flare was classified as an X18-category explosion,
meaning it can trigger planet-wide radio blackouts and long-lasting
radiation storms.
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Though my wife and I and younger daughter and her friend were flying home on another airline from Kahului, Maui on the 8th, my older daughter was flying to another west coast city of the U.S. and was flying Alaska Airlines. Their computers were down 5 hours that morning so no planes could take off from the mainland or Hawaii during that time. Luckily, my daughter's plane had already landed and she prevented us from buying a ticket for her on our plane because they restarted all Alaska Airlines computers in time for her to be only 40 minutes late in her take-off from Maui because they plane was already there. However, likel many other travelers on Alaska airlines on the 8th weren't as lucky as my daughter wound up being. So, Alaska was one of the airlines whose computers went down from the Solar Mass ejection that already hit on the 8th.
The other thing that might go down tonight is GPS satellites which guide planes and ships around the planet. With high traffic in air and sea tonight might be a dangerous one for vessels in air or sea navigating seamlessly through the night around earth.
My wife was telling me that many satellite companies are shutting down their satellites so the storm won't destroy them temporarily or permanently at this time before the storm hits the magnetosphere and it is too late to do anything about it.
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