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Power outage cripples Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport
(CNN)A power outage at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the world's busiest airport, is leaving thousands of passengers stranded and planes grounded indefinitely. The Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground stop for flights to Atlanta at 11:30 a.m. ET Sunday, meaning that planes are being held at their departure airports, according to a tweet on the airport's verified Twitter account. Departures from the airport are delayed because electronic equipment… (www.cnn.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
That was my first question.. UGH, Our SOC has 2 Generators to keep our stuff going so we can keep our flight s moving, but an airport the size of ATL does not???? Something is wrong here.... I would picture then having a couple dozen or more!
How ironic that this happened on the 114th anniversary of the Wright brothers' first successful flight.
I think it's a coincidence.
It's times like this that make me glad I'm a retired airline ticket agent. Awful mess, indeed.
I wonder how much fuel was wasted from all of those planes running the APUs for hours.
Redundancy? Generators?
I hope they have more than one cable route for data fiber/cables. And hope they add a second power run soon and long with some generators for essential services, jet bridges etc.
You would think with all the Spring and Summer Thunder Storm they had redundancy built in to support operations.