Glitch and Power Outage

Glitch is a wrong word used when talking about the January 1st fiasco at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport causing flight delays and cancellations, chaos, and confusion.

A computer glitch or blip is a sudden, usually temporary malfunction or irregularity of equipment. It was not temporary (since the problem dragged for days) and the way I see it is more of a shutdown ... a malfunction in the system, a hardware failure that causes that system to freeze, reboot, and make error messages. It was a disaster, a dangerous snafu and somebody did screw up big-time.