A power outage at the Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center Tuesday cut communications and brought incoming and outgoing flights in Southern California to a standstill, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said.
"We lost everything, we lost all power to phone lines, computers, everything," said Allen Kenitzer, a regional spokesman for the FAA.
The outage was reported around 6 p.m., Kenitzer said, and the cause was not known.
The center is located in the high desert near Palmdale.
The other TV stations have the same info:
http://cbs2.com/
"BREAKING NEWS
Flights in and out of LAX, Bob Hope and Ontario International airports have ground to a halt because of a power failure affecting radar and the Southern California air traffic system."
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/
"BREAKING NEWS: The FAA has just issued a ground stop for all inbound and outbound aircraft at all Southern California area airports due to a major power failure at L.A. Center... Expect area flights to be delayed... More details to come..."
http://www.myfoxla.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=210514&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=PSTY&pageId=1.1.1 "All flights in and out of LAX, Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, and Ontario International Airport have been suspended due to a power outage affecting radar in Southern California."
Planes are still incoming.....they just dont have the identifying information.....towers asking them if they are blip at so-and-so