Contact Lost with Planes One by One as FAA Fire Spread

plexidigest.com ^ | 10/2/2014 | Unknown

[rktman]

Within minutes, radar feeds, flight plans and other data controllers rely on to direct more than 6,000 aircraft a day above five U.S. states had vanished as a fire was being set in a communications room one floor below. The attack was thorough and carried out by someone who knew the system intimately -- down to removing steel sheathing on data cables to destroy them, according to three people with knowledge of the incident.

[rktman]

Link at site for full story on bloomers web site.

[DonaldC]

So the FAA has no DR site? How much of the rest of the gov is this unprepared for the unexpected.

[x_plus_one]

The FAA has great diversity training though. Too bad they don’t have anyone left who knows how to keep the machines running.

[molson209]

Hair turned White in an eye blink

[Black Agnes]

Ping.

[vette6387]

“The FAA has great diversity training though. Too bad they don’t have anyone left who knows how to keep the machines running.”

I don’t know whether or not it is still true, but Chicago Center used to have equipment that used vacuum tubes and the FAA had to pay the manufacturer of those tubes to remain in the business to keep the FAA equipment running.

[reg45]

If the room had been designed to be flooded with Halon or CO₂ at the first sign of fire.... However, I think Halon may have been restricted along with other fluorocarbons under the Kyoto Protocols and CO₂ fire suppression equipment may also have been eliminated.

[GOPJ]

Howard was found there a short time later by paramedics... He was shirtless, had cuts on his arms and was attempting to slit his throat, according to the document.

... He was shirtless, had cuts on his arms and was attempting to slit his throat, according to the document. ... Facebook Post

Minutes before the attack, Howard posted a message on Facebook ... an anti-U.S. rant calling the government guilty of “immoral and unethical acts.”

... contained an anti-U.S. rant calling the government guilty of “immoral and unethical acts.”

Sounds more like ISIS... same with the Anti-American rant.

[xone]

Looks like all the IFR cleared flights had to do Lost Comm procedures. PITA, but not that big of a deal.

[Smokin' Joe]

A facility I got an impromptu tour of in a remote location had multiple backup systems, ranging from the latest solid state circuitry to vacuum tubes, with power backups ranging from generators to leyden jar batteries.

It was an amazing parade of technology, and all kept in working order. One backup generator was designed to run for five years without stopping.

The fellow there also told me (this was decades ago) that if the facility went down, it would place hundreds of commercial and civil aviation aircraft in peril over a multistate area. I would assume the facility has significantly more safeguards security-wise than it did in the days long before 9/11.

I would hope there are redundant overlapping systems now.