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\ud83d\udc77\ud83c\udffe is UTF-16 for Construction Worker, Brown Skin Tone. Which was clearly not properly encoded, but that does explain why it's there. Well, almost, since an IOS Engineer doesn't do that kind of construction.
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The Shakespeare Airport one is less of a WTF than it frist (I'm actually sceond) appears. The table is correct; what is wrong is just the string calling those flights as going TO Malta when they are actually arriving FROM there.
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The UTF-16 bug decodes as the construction worker emoji with a "medium-dark" skin tone
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You must be new here ;) That is the whole point.
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I know it is the whole point. I'm saying it would be a BIG WTF if the error was the information presented in the table, but at least it was a smaller WTF instead.
Geez, was I not clear enough?
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People ask me what I do for a living, and I tell 'em "I type". It's accurate and easier to explain than "I administrate a cluster of IVR computer telephony and occasionally pull shifts in the Mail Ops NOC". What do I do, really? I just sit here at my desk, and I type. I am a good typer. -- Huey at the Scary Devil Monastery
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ok. Perhaps you should be on the WTF Submission judging committee
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Those are clearly loopback flights.
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What happens if the airport has an emergency or a disaster? I thought the loopback flight couldn't rerouted somewhere else?
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I expect anyone in IT knows what happens...the loopback flight keeps looping and faulting back to its origin until the power runs out.