The phrase "a technical failure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where a system, device, or process does not function as intended due to technical issues.
Example: "The presentation was delayed due to a technical failure with the projector."
Alternatives: "a system malfunction" or "a technological breakdown."
In addition, hundreds of thousands of consumers were inconvenienced yesterday by a technical failure at Verizon.
Blair won, but Meacher was right, as the plant has proved a technical failure and economic disaster.
Iranian officials claim to have shot down the drone, whereas American officials say it crashed because of a technical failure.
Now the best information suggests that the power supply simply failed during the broadcast due to a technical failure.
He said that engineers at Bushehr had identified a technical failure, but were struggling to understand its cause.
Egypt's aviation minister had initially said a terrorist attack was most likely to have brought down the plane but a technical failure was also possible.
That, according to experts, could indicate a bomb caused the disaster, although an explosive decompression from a technical failure is equally possible.
The Syrian authorities insisted that the jet had crashed because of a technical failure, but rebel groups and activists sought to win over skeptics by turning to YouTube.
So far, only one NATO plane has crashed, and that was early in the conflict, after what NATO officials said was a technical failure.
Egypt's aviation minister, Sherif Fathi, said he did not want to prematurely draw conclusions, but added: "The possibility of having a different action or a terror attack, is higher than the possibility of having a technical failure".
OTTAWA — For the second time in less than a year, a technical failure on Monday idled the thumbs of many BlackBerry users by severing their wireless link to e-mail and the Web.
