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Nearly 2,000 Chicago Flights Canceled After Worker Sets Fire At Radar Center

Posted by Soulskill on from the enjoy-your-prison-stay dept.

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.

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  1. Scorpion ot the rescue! by macraig · · Score: 2, Informative

    So did they send in the new Scorpion team to save the day?

  2. Re:Taxing the Congested Skies by amicusNYCL · · Score: 4, Informative

    Your solution is "don't travel so much?" With all due respect, go fuck yourself. We already pay fees on airline tickets to pay for things like this. If the system cannot handle the current load, then the system needs to be upgraded.

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  3. Re:what a difference a day makes by Nidi62 · · Score: 4, Informative

    The people you're talking about go through a ton of screening before being allowed onto an aircraft.

    As someone who works at an airport, no, they don't.

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