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"...

[Joe Hadenuf]

Let me go look Gramma......

[Brad’s Gramma]

Me too.

I'm gonna win this thing if I have to stay up...for another half an hour. Ha!

[Lobbyist]

What's the prize? Laurie Dhue?

[BurbankKarl]

Planes low on fuel and in contact with the tower at LAX would be allowed to come in....

the small planes are under local tower controls, which still had their radios.....Palmdale Center controls from Arizona border to San Diego to Bakersfield, using repeaters and stuff like that for their radios...that is what broke. even the radar worked, but they couldnt talk to the planes.

of course, now they will want digital, satellite radios....until a solar flare or something knocks them out.

[JustPiper]

Fair?
What are the updates my friend? If radio failed, was the software sabotaged?

[Henchman]

Point is - that is NY = EAST Coast delay. 3000 miles from LAX. NY Freepers say all is quiet in the skys there. The best part is that I don't hear any jets flying cover here as I did the last time flights were grounded...don't know if all flights are grounded or not. Just checked for LAZ there and will check other cities went to an International site and will rummage there: Airline Flight Number Departure City Departure Time Arrival City Arrival Time Status Altitude (feet) Ground speed (KTS) Equip. ABQ 8:33 pm LAX 8:54 pm Delayed N/A N/A B762 ABQ 8:33 pm LAX 8:54 pm Delayed N/A N/A B762 ABQ 8:33 pm LAX 8:54 pm Delayed N/A N/A B762 ABQ 8:34 pm LAX 8:55 pm Delayed N/A N/A B762 ABQ 8:34 pm LAX 8:55 pm Delayed N/A N/A B762 ABQ 8:34 pm LAX 8:55 pm Delayed N/A N/A B762 DEN 9:52 pm LAX 10:35 pm Scheduled N/A N/A B762

[BurbankKarl]

they loaded XPSR2....oops.

[BurbankKarl]

oh, you betcha, I checked 271.0 on the scanner first thing to see if NORAD was up!

[Palladin]

Thanks for checking NORAD.

It's reassuring that they are not scrambling.

[bd476]

Joe and Karl say it's a problem in Palmdale with communications. KNX just reported the same thing.

[Joe Hadenuf]

We still see nothing on approach. Generally we can see at least 6 or 7 at this time of night, heading westbound.

[lainie]

Oh. "Palmdale screwed up?" say no more.

(jiminy christmas.)

[kingu]

Visibility out here is getting annoying looking east (which means the fireworks are going to be nifty at the fair tonight), but I'd assume that inbounds would take a while to get here. Outbound Burbank, LAX and ONT appear to be running, but not with the normal spacing -- likely just taking a bit to spool up.

Gonna be a long night for a lot of air travellers. (And longer for a lot of pilots.)

[Milwaukee_Guy]

I was at the hurricane thread and am a little late on this story.

Did anyone finally get to the bottom of the Laurie story?

How's the moose?

What does FOX have to say about all of this?

You know....my sister was once bitten by a moose!

[Brad’s Gramma]

Brad's Gramma 5
Joe 0

I'm ahead. WHOOPEEEEE

[Brad’s Gramma]

Uhhhh......well, no. No thank you.

[bd476]

Hah hah, Brad's Gramma. Thanks for the reassuring update. No overhead noise out here, which has sort of an upside to it and a downside as well.

[FairOpinion]

I don't have any updates.

But since this is such an important communications center, they must have redundancy upon redundancy and backup upon backup. Then they all just mysteriously fail.

Sure.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Yeah, the marine layer is coming in here. Visibility is now down to probably 20 miles or less where we are.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Thanks, Karl!

Howlin...#364!