Telephone Line Causes Major Memphis Malfunction

All air traffic within 250 miles of Memphis had to be diverted today due to a failure of a telephone line that powers the regional air traffic control failed. While no one was in any danger, it was a major inconvenience because many flights had to be rerouted or diverted to alternate airports. MEM is also the hub for FedEx, although they were largely not effected because most of their flights take place in the early morning.

From the article.

National Air Traffic Controllers union spokesman Doug Church called the outage a major safety problem. He said controllers had to use their personal cell phones to talk to other air-traffic control centers.

Written by tb_neg on September 25th, 2007 with no comments.
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