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Nearly 2,000 Chicago Flights Canceled After Worker Sets Fire At Radar Center
SpzToid sends this news out of Illinois:
Nearly 2,000 flights in Chicago have been canceled so far today as federal aviation officials slowly resume operations at O'Hare and Midway airports following a fire that was deliberately set at an FAA radar center, apparently by a disgruntled worker. The center handles high-altitude traffic across parts of the Midwest. Controllers there direct planes through the airspace and either hand off the air traffic to other facilities handling high-altitude traffic or direct the planes to terminal radar facilities, including one in Elgin, which in turn direct planes to and from airport towers.
but this is way too literal.
You mad bro?
Solving Unix problems since 1989...
This is a high-visibility example, but employers should really learn it can be much cheaper to gently gruntle your workers than to deal with the consequences.
Apparently you did nod read the lead. He fired them.
wake up and hold your nose
its obvious that we need to regulate matches. When one person can just walk into a store buy a pack of matches and threaten 1000 innocent airplanes we have an epidemic in the USA, Other countries have sensical match control laws. It is about time the USA got on board too.
If we could have outlawed matches this tragedy could have been avoided. Yes the problem with the USA is there aren't enough common sense laws.
No, everybody should carry matches! They would surely have stopped this maniac that way! It's the damn gubiment saying we can't carry matches...