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> I wanted to keep my above comment to the data only, so I'll post this here: "Equipment Failure" can cover just about anything.

Stuxnet was after all an equipment failure. Sure, with an interesting plot to get there.

(Just commenting on the term "equipment failure", don't know anything about the FAA failure of today.)

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FAA and most all global air systems and services tend to use their own nomenclature for communicating to pilots -- I would read "equipment failure" as a term that pilots would use and understand as "a temporary or permanent failure of software or hardware in the system" and not read into it any additional common sense from other areas of expertise.

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