Flights Grounded Out West?

FOX News ^ | 9/14/04 | NeverGore

[nevergore]

According to Laurie Dhue at the bottom of the hour all flights are grounded at LAX due to a "radio problem"...

[Chani]

bttt

[Gillsie]

What is "IPN Breaking News"? Is there any other link to that unknown problem to an unknown aircraft at San Jose?

[hope]

Quiet here in the Phoenix area which is usually very busy this time of the evening..except for a couple of f15's flying over around the training base a little while ago. I don't see much else but a couple of small planes.

[tmp02]

http://www.incidentpage.net/

[Spyder]

I'm across the street in a hotel and have heard 3 planes take off in the past 3 or 4 minutes. I checked out the window and could see them as well, so it's running again.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Looking out 30 miles east of LAX Karl. Nothing on approach. Skies empty.

[I'm ALL Right!]

Anyone hear about the FLA to LAX flight that was diverted to Dallas due to an unruly passenger?

Apparently he was spouting stuff about OBL and wrapping his shirt around his head like a Turban. (Last Friday night) You can watch the video HERE (Click the headline about diverted flight on right side of page.)

[Velveeta]

bookmark

[BurbankKarl]

http://www.flytecomm.com/cgi-bin/trackflight

track southwest 2239

[Henchman]

http://www.fly.faa.gov/flyfaa/usmap.jsp
AIRPORT STATUS INFORMATION
provided by the FAA's Air Traffic Control System Command Center
Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) Real-time Status
The status information provided on this site indicates general airport conditions; it is not flight-specific. Check with your airline to determine if your flight is affected.
Delays by Destination:

* Due to ATC ZERO/ LOSS OF FREQUENCIES, departure traffic destined to ZLA airport will not be allowed to depart until at or after 04:00 UTC.

General Departure Delays: Traffic is experiencing gate hold and taxi delays lasting 15 minutes or less.
General Arrival Delays: Arrival traffic is experiencing airborne delays of 15 minutes or less.
This information was last updated: Sep 14, 2004 11:02:48 PM EDT

Glossary of Air Traffic Management Terms - A table containing definitions and/or descriptions of many common Air Traffic Management acronyms.

[Brad’s Gramma]

I wonder if the one going to Austin was the one I JUST NOW saw.

[safisoft]

Pilots were forced to switched to a different radio frequency to communicate with other control facilities, she said.

"We want to stress there are no safety issues just delays because control over the air space has been turned over to other air traffic facilities," said Gaby Pacheco, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles International Airport.

Sheesh. Just like I've been saying. An inconvenience? Yes. A crisis? NO.

[txhurl]

N. Austin skies quiet. Unusual.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Can't get in. What's with 2239?

[milford421]

Burbank...I came up with the message "No flight Data"...

[Gillsie]

thanks for the reference to ipn

jeesh...i really hope this isn't a Die Hard 2 situation

[BurbankKarl]

http://www4.passur.com/lax.html

you will see the skies filling up shortly....they have to clear the gates out here before planes can come in to land.

Van Nuys to Austin....that would make a cool story!

[Joe Hadenuf]

Gezzz capt'n calm down. No one said it was a crisis. LOL.

[dalereed]

There isn't a safety problem, IFR rules are set up for just this kind of circumstance. No aircraft are allowed to take off and all aircraft in the air have a clearance to their intended airport and are cleared to land in case of communication loss with a time slot of +5min. -0min.

Had it happen to me one time on a flight into Burbank when I was still over Arizona on a flight from Texas.

[Spyder]

You were right, and since I last posted I've heard two more planes take off - oops, make that 3.

Folks - LAX appears to be back up, at least for now.