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derKestrel t1_ix157yx wrote

Reply to comment by M4NOOB in TIFU by shutting down an entire airline in 1997, costing them six figures. by BikerJedi

Unless one broke and you never got funds for a replacement...

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erudite_luddite t1_ix4a6k2 wrote

Haha, this is the answer! A casino in AZ decided to co-opt the back-up systems rather than fix the mains and when a "Flood Of A Century!!!"(1) flooded the basement, they were offline for months. They had fired their services provider the year prior and decided to manage in-house, to cut costs.

(1) It was a typical monsoon storm, happens > 100 times a century.

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