[Cindy]

Thank you backhoe.

[windchime]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1668200/posts

Flights in and out of three Southland airports have been halted because of a power failure affecting radar and the Southern California air traffic control system.

The affected airports are

[Los] Angeles International Airport,
Bob Hope Airport in Burbank and
Ontario International Airport.


"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.