FAA Radio Outage Snarls Western Flights

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By KOMO Staff & News Services

Summary

A flight from Seattle was among many affected Tuesday when a radio failure at a Federal Aviation Administration control facility grounded some flights.

Story Published: Sep 14, 2004 at 6:45 PM PDT

Story Updated: Aug 31, 2006 at 1:34 AM PDT

FAA Radio Outage Snarls Western Flights
LOS ANGELES - A so-called ground stop that brought airline traffic to a halt at several airports in the West has been lifted.

A spokeswoman at Oakland International Airport says airports were given the all-clear to resume flight operations at around 8 p.m. Tuesday

Departing flights had been held on the ground since 4:40 Tuesday afternoon because of a radio failure at the Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center in Palmdale north of LA. The center controls airspace in the LA region, northern California and parts of Nevada.

An FAA spokeswoman says at the time of the outage, air traffic controllers could monitor the planes on radar but were not able to communicate with them.

The cause of the outage is not yet known.