California Air Traffic Center Outage Probed
An AP newswire article by Daisy Nguyen, via The Mercury News, reports that:
Thousands of travelers across the western United States and Canada had their plans disrupted by an 80-minute power outage at a radar facility that handles flights in and out of Southern California.More here.
The outage at the Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center was reported shortly after 5:30 p.m. Tuesday and shut down all telephone, electrical and radar functions. The center's backup generator kicked in shortly before 7 p.m., restoring power, said Allen Kenitzer, a regional spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration.
The cause of the outage was under investigation, FAA officials said.
posted by Fergie @ 7/19/2006 07:36:00 AM
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