News: RADAR Failure at Memphis ARTCC Causes 100's of Delays
Posted by Matthew Justice on Sep 25, 2007
Memphis Center Air Traffic Controllers (ATC) were forced to use their personal cell phones to reroute hundreds of flights Tuesday after the center lost radar and telephone service for more than two hours. In addition to the center outage, three of nine long-range RADAR systems were lost, causing the FAA to temporarily ground traffic within a 250-mile radius of Memphis center, affecting flights in seven states.
Memphis Center's airspace includes 100,000 square miles of airspace, covering the states of Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and parts of Alabama and Kentucky.
The malfunction occurred inside a telephone company's switching office. Both Delta and Northwest airlines had to cancel flights.
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