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Air Traffic Control Tower at Midway Temporarily Closed After Technicians Test Positive for Coronavirus
Midway International Airport's air traffic control tower has been temporarily closed after three air traffic controllers at the airport tested positive for the novel coronavirus. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the air traffic control tower at the airport is “temporarily closing” while crews clean facilities. A ground stop has been ordered, according to the flight tracking website Flight Aware. That ground stop means that all inbound flights to Midway that have not already… (www.nbcchicago.com) Más...
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A Major Hospital had to quarantine one shift of workers in a unit after one person reported positive.
The Airways Facilities "technicians" (we called them AF Techs) could have offices in the tower building at Midway. It looks like a pretty big building and it would not be unusual for AF and controllers to share building space.
Midway airports is a little small and crowded.. hope all goes well.. we used to have portable emergency towers and radios.. ???
wait im confused.... was it controllers or was it TechOps? The word "Technicians" would assume the latter of the two.....
Techops but everyone is subject to being exposed so that is why they are ATC zero.
:( imagine the impact when the first ARTCC or major TRACON gets hit..... NAS is shutting down soon you can feel it.... sadly its coming.
LOAs are in place for if an ARTCC goes down that adjacent ARTCCs can extend their borders to cover. That's what happened when wildfired got all the way up to Palmdale, and ZLA had to evacuate. ZOA and ZAB extended their borders to cover the airspace.
Now, if more than two adjacent sectors goes down, that's a different story. if ZMP and ZKC goes down, that's basically the border with Canada all the way down to Oklahoma City. the adjacent sectors (ZLC, ZDV, ZFW, ZME, ZID, ZOB, and ZAU) would extend their borders to help, but if ZDV were to go out, that's basically Tuba City to Buffalo that would be out.
Now, if more than two adjacent sectors goes down, that's a different story. if ZMP and ZKC goes down, that's basically the border with Canada all the way down to Oklahoma City. the adjacent sectors (ZLC, ZDV, ZFW, ZME, ZID, ZOB, and ZAU) would extend their borders to help, but if ZDV were to go out, that's basically Tuba City to Buffalo that would be out.
