Fail-Safe Fails: FAA Looks for Answers
Jennifer Oldham and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar write in The Los Angeles Times:
When radar screens suddenly went dark at Palmdale's regional air traffic center on Tuesday, controller Bruce Bates and his colleagues knew instinctively what to do: They grabbed their cellphones and started calling for help.More here.
The simple solution to a high-tech problem played out as pilots flying at high altitudes over Southern California and much of Nevada and Arizona tried in vain to reach controllers in the Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center, where even the radios were dead.
posted by Fergie @ 7/20/2006 07:41:00 AM
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